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THE MASTERY SERIES. 



LATIN. 



THOMAS PRENDERGAST, 

LATE OF THE CIVIL SERVICE AT MADRAS: 

Author of 

"the mastery of lanaua(jes, or the art of speakinc; fokku^n 

tongues idiomatically,' 'handbook to the 3iasterv series,' am' 

Manuals of Hebrew, oerman, french, and Spanish. 



LONDON: 

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.. 

1872. 



[The right of translation and all other privileges are rtserced.l 



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CONTENT S. 



Preface. page 

Initiatory Exercise ... ... ... ... 1 

Sentences and their Variations ... 2 to 71 

Coupled Sentences 72 to 8ii 

Couplets and Triplets — arranged as Exercises on \ 



the 5 Declensions ...* . ..^ ..•-... ..., I 



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Diversifying Table Itfl 



Appendix A. 



Epitome of the Accidence — Nouns and Pronouns. 



Appendix B. 



Epitome of the Accidence. — Verbs Eegular, Irregular, am 
Anomalous. 



Notices of the Mastery System. 



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PREFACE. 

1.— The study of the Classical Languages has been long established 
as the basis of the highest education throughout Christendom. But 
the mode of initiation practised in our best schools is very uncertain 
in its results, and intolerably tedious both to teachers and learners. 
2. — As a partial remedy for these defects, a new method of teach- 
ing Latin composition is here set forth, the object of which is to im- 
part a knowledge of grammar, pure and simple, by familiarising 
beginners very gradually with the constructions and inflections of 
the language, without puzzling them with technical terms, or rules, 
or instructions. This is effected by arranging a series of sentences 
and their English versions so that they shall analyse and explain 
every construction, every inflection, and every word in each text. 
The method requires that the sentences shall be learned by heart 
so thoroughly that beginners shall be able to reproduce them with 
as much facility as in the Vernacular. 

3. — The various inflections are transferred from one word to 
another ; they are distributed so as to bring out their full power and 
significance, and they recur very frequently in the variations. In 
like manner, every construction is made intelligible and familiar by 
its frequent reappearance in other combinations of words. 

4. — The specialty of the process consists in the incessant employ- 
ment of the English versions of the Latin sentences, in order to 
draw them forth from the memory in ever varjing succession, 
and to exercise the learner in altering them, so as to correspond 
with alterations made in the English. Every English sentence may 
be varied by replacing one of its words with another selected from 
among those already learned; and as the nouns in the first few 
texts are all of one declension, and the verbs of one conjugation, 
every one of them is liable to be thus displaced, and every Latin 
sentence may be made to undergo several alterations in succession. 
The translating of the altered English sentences, and the omission 
of words and phrases from each sentence, as shown in page 1, form 
the first steps to viva voce composition. 

5. — This, in truth, is the method of nature, observable in children 
who have lived for two or three months amongst educated foreigners, 
and have mastered half a dozen complete idiomatic sentences of 



about ten words in lengtli, together witli a large number of uncon- 
nected words and pbrases which, they always repeat faultlessly. At 
that period they are in possession of about 200 words^ most of which 
will be found arranged and classified in the Diversifying Table, and 
from that stage they advance rapidly in speaking, the length of 
their sentences increases, and the quality improves, until they speak 
as perfectly as natives of their own age. Such are the effects pro- 
duced in about six months by their persistency in daily mastering 
sentences, and in varying those they have previously learned. 

6. — In this imitative process, they speak grammatically and idio- 
matically, because grammar is the life-blood pervading every mas- 
tered sentence, and the idiom is the sequence in which the words 
are arranged. It is obvious that they imbibe the principles of the 
constructions in the concrete, much more effectually and more 
intelligently than is done by those who attempt to learn them in 
the abstract, under the guidance of the grammarian. 

7. — Considering that sentences constitute language, speech is 
nothing more than the diversification of a stock of mastered sen- 
tences. The process is very tedious in infancy ; but when a child 
eight or ten years old is thrown entirely on its own resources, and 
has to pick up at haphazard, to discriminate, to interpret, to analyse, 
and to master a stock of useful sentences from amongst the rapid 
and puzzling utterances of foreigners, its profusion of idiomatic 
speech at the end of three months is a marvel, the sources of which 
have been left too long unexplored. 

8. — When the stock of mastered words amounts to 300, by the 
addition, as it were, of a number of nouns to the words in the 
Diversifying Table, it affords to its possessor the perfect command 
over an incredible number of complete sentences, by the expansive 
process described in the 4th chapter of the Mastery of Languages, 
and illustrated in the Couplets and Triplets. 

9. — When we observe how rapidly strange languages reveal them- 
selves to the feeblest intellect, even without the aid of an inter- 
preter, it will be conceded that adults may also succeed in speaking 
idiomatically from the outset, by resolutely mastering and varying a 
well-chosen set of typical sentences, whereof every word is explained 
in their English versions. A powerful memory will accomplish the 
same task with great facility, provided always that the law of 
frequency be adopted at first, instead of continuous application 
and study. This sketch of the method of nature as distinguished 
from the first efforts of children, who distort and conceal 



it under heaps of rubbish, will not be considered irrelevant, 
except by those who hold that the power of speaking a difficult 
language can only be the offspring of laborious study, and that it 
must be founded upon an intimate acquaintance with the whole 
of the accidence and the syntax, combined with the knowledge of 
a large number of words. 

10. — The study of the classical languages has led to such splendid 
results in many instances, in which men of high intellectual power 
have carried it on assiduously, that the same mode of initiation has 
been inconsiderately adopted for the attainment of modern languages 
also. Hence it happens, unfortunately, that the linguistic faculty 
is left wholly unexercised during the period of boyhood ; and there 
is no recognised method for teaching languages colloquially, much 
less for enabling beginners to speak idiomatically from the onset. 

11. — Now, it is obvious that if a variety of typical colloquial sen- 
tences be mastered, the greater that number may be, the niore easy 
and natural will it be for the beginner to speak the language, and 
gradually to converse in it. It is also evident that he may then 
have recourse to the grammar with the greatest advantage. It is 
because the true method of initiation is entirely unknown that men 
of high classical attainments go abroad in a state of utter help- 
lessness, in spite of their being well stored with the accidence, the 
syntax, and the vocabulary of the language which they are longing 
to be able to speak. They are in possession of all the requisite 
materials, but they cannot use them because they have been left to 
pick up the coUoquial anyhow and anywhere, by practice, conducted 
not methodically, but empirically. They are conscious that their 
unapplied, and therefore unreal, knowledge of grammar must be 
rectified somehow or other. But they know not how to begin, because 
the " deaf and dumb " method pursued in studying the dead lan- 
guages, the speaking of which is prohibited, leaves its votaries in 
such a position that they can neither speak nor understand what is 
spoken to them, when they go abroad. 

12. — The Manuals of German, French, and Spanish will enable 
such persons to extricate themselves from these difficulties in a week, 
by a process of self -instruction, which will be found far less em- 
barrassing and infinitely more effectual than practising conversation 
with foreigners. Let them translate each English page, three or 
four times in succession, helping themselves at pleasure by looking 
at the foreign version. The vocabulary being very limited, each 
successive attempt to translate a page will be performed with greater 



celerity, and eacli new page thus treated will add tp that facility. 
This exercise should be carried on as often as leisure can he found, 
because Frequency is essential to good success, and Action is the 
watchword for the aspiring linguist. 

13. — The English pages of any one of the Manuals may be em- 
ployed in like manner for the promotion of the colloquial attain- 
ment of any other language, which the student can read with 
facility. It must be borne in mind, however, that though facility 
may be thus suddenly acquired in speaking a foreign language by 
those who have not been properly trained, their diction will require 
to be rectified by the mastery and diversification of a well-chosen 
set of idiomatic sentences. 

14. — If scholars will make a similar experiment with this Manual, 
they will obtain the same facility in the oral composition of Latin, 
without ever looking at the Latin pages, and they will thus be con- 
vinced of the soundness of the principle here laid down. 

15. — The exercise of oral composition may be said to constitute 
the whole of the Mastery process; but it is not unnecessary to 
remark that the power of speaking forms only one-haK of the pro- 
cess of talking. The latter depends upon siich a knowledge of all 
the constructions of the language, and many hundreds of words, 
that the learner can understand whatever may be said by a foreigner 
relating to the ordinary afi'airs of life. Talking is therefore for- 
bidden, even in modern languages, for at least one month, during 
which time there must also be a' total exclusion of reading, gram- 
mar, written exercises, the learning of unconnected words, and 
everything except Mastery. Much more rigorously then, must the 
prohibition of talking be enforced in respect to Latin, not only at 
the commencement, but also through the whole course of study. 

16. — None of the Exercises of the schools caU forth that 
discriminating reflex action of the memory which is required for the 
development of the linguistic faculty. On the contrary, they 
produce so repressive an effect, that nothing remains but that recourse 
should be had to the Exercises in Oral Composition, which prevailed 
300 years ago. That system however, broke down in consequence 
of the irrational endeavours of unskilful teachers, who imagined that 
'^talking' was the first and chief object, and thus fostered corrupt Latin. 

17. — Mastery takes a middle course between the colloquial and 
the scholastic systems, carefully avoiding both Dialogues and Gram- 
mars at first, but effecting a junction with either or both at the 
pleasure of the learner, after at least one month's bond fide work. 



That period however, must be extended in proportion to the complexity 
of the structure, and to the number and diversity of the inflections 
in the language to be acquired. 

18. — Mastery is an exact method of manipulating Languages 
combined with a novel mode of procedure for beginners, whereby 
definite daily progress is secured in naturalising the forms of speech 
peculiar to other languages. This plan not only fixes the foreign 
idioms in the memory, with a thorough understanding and a clear 
recollection of each construction, but also imparts to learners 
at an early stage, a rapid appreciation of the drift of foreign sentences, 
containing words which they have never seen before. 

19. — In the prevailing modes of learning Latin, the memory is 
always overloaded and in many cases irretrievably confused by a 
superfluity of words. The leading principle of this method is to reduce 
the language to the smallest possible compass, by excluding the great 
mass of nouns and verbs, and by conflning the learner's attention chiefly 
to the other parts of speech at first. The Syntax is exemplified in the 
body of the Manual, while the Epitome of the Accidence shows the 
mechanism of the language. The attainment of the power of framing 
Latin sentences depends chiefly upon the gradual mastery of this 
mechanism, and its adaptation to all the requirements of speech. 
Latin being a very complicated language, it is the more desirable that 
exceptional, and irregular constructions,Jand anomalous forms, should 
be excluded at flrst, in order that the general principles of its 
structure may be mastered with the greater facility, before the 
learner encounters the innumerable puzzles of the language. This 
principle of exclusion renders it imperative that the rules for the 
guidance of beginners should be most rigorously observed for at 
least one month, because any modiflcation thereof will be equivalent 
to a total abandonment of the method. 

20. — If the adult learner, pursuing his course of self -instruction, 
should wish to study the Public School Primer or any other Latin 
Grammar, unassisted, he ought not to begin until he has mastered 
500 sentences, and that study ought not to be allowed to interfere in 
the slightest degree with his progress in the Manual. 

21. — Technical Grammar being a very abstruse study, ought to be 
reserved till boys are at least 13 years of age. It may be commenced 
at the end of the first fortnight's work at this Manual, provided that 
it be taught orally by teachers who can fully and clearly explain 
every technical term ; that the instruction be limited to the words 
already learned ; that no other forms of those words be mentioned; 



that no reference be made to tlie Grammar Book ; and that no new- 
instruction be imparted, unless the pupil can readily reproduce aU 
that he has previously received. The alternative course should be to 
defer the study of Technical Grammar until the Manual and the 
Epitome of the Accidence have been mastered. 

22. — Adult learners, wishing to study Technical Grammar with a 
teacher, may adopt the same plan of oral instruction. Those 
however, who shrink from that arduous study, may have recourse, 
after going through this Manual, to the Exercises described in the 
"Handy Booh to the Series," and they will then find the study of 
Technical Grammar far more easy and intelligible than it is to those 
who have not been previously instructed in Grammar pure and 
simple, that is, in the general principles of Grammar realized and 
naturalized through the medium of a highly inflected language. 



DIRECTIONS TO THE ADULT LEAE:N^EE. 

1. — Learn the Latin sentences one by one so thoroughly that you 
shall be able to repeat them readily and fluently at sight of their 
English versions. 2. — In doing this never repeat them twice in the 
same order. 3. — Do not work more than one hour a day during the 
flrst month, nor for more than 10 minutes at a time. 4. — On the 
first day do not exceed half an hour. 5. — In learning by heart, the 
time may always be sub-divided at the pleasure of the beginner. 
Frequent short efforts will produce far greater results than prolonged 
study. 6. — Three sittings a day of 10 minutes each may be 
made a fixed standard. 7, — Never learn more than one sentence 
at a time. 8. — Eead it 20 times, very rapidly, in a very loud whisper, 
uttering the words so that you can hear every syllable. 9. — After 
that, read it alternately with one or other of those previously 
learned, and flinch not from the labor of mastering them. 
10. — Volubility is required for the repetition of many sentences 
within ten minutes. 11. — As the memory is never to be trusted, 
always read over the whole of the back lessons before you attempt to 
recall them. 12. — Each sentence must settle in the memory before 
you even look at a new one ; otherwise the memory will be confused, 
and the foundation which you are laying will be unsafe. 13. — It is 
better to work alone than in company. 14. — After mastering 14 
variations on pages 2 — 3, interchange and omit words as described in 
paragraph 4 of the Preface. 15. — Note the date on which you 
begin each sentence, and the number of minutes you work each day, 
and always time yourself by the clock, for "mastery" is an exact 
method which demands that not a moment shall be wasted — nor a 
syllable forgotten — nor a word misplaced in rehearsing the 
sentences. 



PEONUNCIATION. 
1. — Vowels having the long mark a e i o ii are pronounced 
invariably as we commonly repeat them. 2. — Long y is sounded as 
in " by." 3. — When marked short, a e i o ii y are to be sounded 
with the following consonant and pronounced as in English, thus 
an — egg — is — on — us — hymn. 4. — Lay the emphasis on the last 



syllable but one, whenever the vowel is marked long, but never when 
it is marked short. 5. — In words of two syllables, the emphasis 
always falls on the first. 6. — In words of more than two syllables, 
when the last but one is short, the preceding one bears the emphasis. 
The dipthong ae is to be sounded like long e. 

DIRECTIONS TO TEACHEES. 
1. — The beginner should be made to devote 10 minutes to 
the business of reading aloud the first two little sentences 
on page 1. The other six sentences may form three more 
lessons of ten minutes each. 2. — To defeat the treachery 
of the memory, the whole of the preceding lessons are invariably 
to be read over at the beginning of each sitting. On this condition, 
it becomes possible to learn new lessons, without forgetting the old. 
3. — Each English sentence is to be read aloud just before repeating the 
Latin one, but the latter is not to be concealed from view (except 
when the boy is under examination.) 4. — A sitting shall never be 
shortened because the learner knows a lesson quite perfectly. 5. — The 
variations on pages 2 — 3 shall not be commenced until those on page 1 
have been mastered. 6. — Each new variation shall constitute a lesson, 
and a new one shall never be looked at until the learner has displayed 
perfect fluency, accuracy, and readiness in repeating all the previous 
lessons in ever-varying succession 7. — When thrice 10 minutes are 
found to be insufficient for the daily repetitions, the mid-day sitting 
should be prolonged or else a fourth sitting may be added. 
8. — The beginner shall never learn more than one new text 
or two new variations in one day; but at least three sittings 
must be taken daily at long intervals, and the work will be found 
easy enough for a boy of ten years of age. 



1. — To make an experiment with this system with boys in classes — 
the lower half should be told off to work for half an hour, reading 
and learning either one new text, or two new variations, as a 
daily task. 2. — After 10 minutes, they should come up one by 
one to be tested. Those who do not falter at any one word 
might then be required to master a Couplet and its Variations. 
The quickest boys would thus fill up the haK-hour usefully, 
without dragging the rest forward too fast. 3. — The duller 
boys should be made to devote 5, 7, or 10 minutes to one variation 
before taking up the second. 4. — They should all be liberated after 
the 10th minute to do arithmetic for 10 minutes. 5. — The shortness 
of each day's task ought not to be objected to simply because the 
boys exhibit great facility. It will be found that their knowledge 
of the Syntax wiU expand and gain strength every day. But if they 
confuse the memory by undertaking more, their facility will be 
checked and they will cease to take pleasure in the work. 6. — If the 
boys in the upper half of the form be exempted and excluded from 
this work, the experiment will show the effects of mastery in the 
increased proficiency gradually attained by the lower half in 
their other exercises. 



When boys of 12 or 13, who have not been taught Latin, are to be 
initiated by means of this Manual, two variations a day will suffice in 
addition to the study of Grammar, but 3 variations may be daily 
exacted from them if they learn no Grammar — and if three sittings 
be considered insufficient, they must take 4, 5, or 6. This rule should 
be observed by all those who are zealous to make rapid progress, but no 



one, even though he may have previously studied the language, 
should attempt more than 3 variations a day during the first month. 

The Epitome of the Accidence exhibits the whole of the 
formations of the Nouns and Pronouns in one Table, and of the Verbs 
in the other. Lists of the Nouns and Verbs are also inserted, and 
on the back of each Table equivalent English lists are given, so that 
the unusual words and anomalous formations may be actively em- 
ployed in diversifying the mastered sentences and couplets. This 
will afford full scope for any such special exercise as the employ- 
ment of a set of verbs, adjectives, and prepositions, all governing 
the ablative case. 

The rules of the Syntax are exemplified in the manual, beginning 
with a very limited supply of masculine nouns in " us," and with 
verbs of one conjugation only. Beginners are thus slowly inducted 
into a practical command over the constructions ; while specimens 
of the other declensions in all their cases and of the other three 
conjugations of the verbs, are gradually introduced. Thus the 
irregular and anomalous nouns and verbs are left to be worked 
either into the body of the Manual, or into the Couplets, at pleasure, 
and this is the compensation for the want of nouns in the Diversi- 
fying Table. 

Couplets. — The coupled sentences are designed to show how 
words may be arranged so as to enable learners to compose sentences 
faultlessly and fluently without any assistance. 

Couplets of 8, 9, or 10 sections each, yield evolutions respectively 
to the number of 2^ 2^ 2^'^. Triplets of the same number of sec- 
tions would yield 3^ 3^ 3^^ and quadruplets would yield 4^ 4^ 4^''. 
On this principle a heavy battery may be concentrated upon any 
particular phrase, in any part of a sentence, in order to its being 
effectually mastered in one sitting. When any section is selected 
to be varied, both lines of the couplets should be varied and trans- 
lated in immediate succession. Great economy is secured in time, 
labour, and space by compressing many sentences into one couplet, 
and the learner may always form a triplet or a quadruplet by adding 
another sentence or two, on exactly the same model, and translating 
the evolutions. 

The Diversifying Table contains 240 of the words most essen- 
tial for the 'colloquial attainment of every language. The nouns 
are omitted, because it is of the highest importance that beginners 
should learn to use all the other parts of speech in framing sen- 
tences with as few nouns as possible. The nouns, therefore, in each 
sentence may stand fast, and need not be diversified at first. 

It is not enough that learners should merely Icnow all the words in 
this Table; because they must be mastered also; beginners must be 
guided to compose faultlessly from the outset, and the Latin modes 
of expression must become naturalised through the medium of 
a very small vocabulary. The highest possible standard of thorough- 
ness is only to be attained by the Mastery and Diversification 
of Typical Sentences. 



The execution of this work has been entrusted with the utmost 
confidence and satisfaction to the Eev. T. C. Fry, M.A., late Scholar 
of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and now one of the Masters of 
Cheltenham College. 

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THE MASTERY SERIES. 

Text I. 

1. My doctor, oh. my trusty friend, was lately relating this to 

my uncle's neighbour. 

2. A neighbour was relating this to my uncle. 

3. The uncle's friend was relating this to the doctor. 

4. My uncle, oh my friend, was recently relating this to a 

neighbour. 

5. My trusty friend, oh my doctor, used to relate this. 

6. The doctor's uncle, oh my neighbour, went on relating 

this to a friend. 

7. My doctor, oh my uncle, was relating this to the neighbour 

of a trusty friend. 

8. A neighbour of my uncle was lately reciting this to the 

trusty doctor. 

9. My uncle was demonstrating this to the doctor's friend 

Philip. 

10. My uncle Philip's trusty friend used to relate this to the 

neighbour. 

11. My trusty friend's neighbour, Philip, was recently relating 

this. 

12. My friend Philip, oh. my faithful neighbour, was demon- 

strating this to the doctor. 

13. An uncle of the doctor was lately relating this to the 

neighbour's faithful friend. 

14. My friend the doctor was lately reciting this to my uncle 

PhHip. 

15. The doctor, oh my uncle, was just now relating this to my 

faithful friend. 

16. My trusty neighbour's friend was lately announcing this to 

the doctor. 

17. My uncle's doctor, oh Philip, is relating this to a friend. 

18. A trusty friend's neighbour is reciting this to my doctor. 

19. My neighbour is demonstrating this to my uncle's faithful 

friend. 

20. My doctor's trusty friend is announcing this to the 

neighbour's uncle. 



LATIN MANUAL. 

Text I. 

1. Mediciis meus, mi fide amice, viclno patrui mei hoc nuper 

narrabat. 

2. Vicinus patruo meo hoc narrabat. 

3. Amicus patrui medico hoc narrabat. 

4. Patruus meus, mi amice, vicino hoc nuper narrabat. 

5. Fidus meus amicus, mi medice, hoc narrabat. 

6. Patruus medici, mi vicine, amico hoc narrabat. 

7. Medicus meus, mi patrue, fidi amici vicino hoc narrabat. 

8. Vicinus patrui mei hoc fido medico nuper recitabat. 

9. Patruus meus Philippo, medici amico, hoc demonstrabat. 

10. Fidus patrui mei Philippi amicus vicino hoc narrabat. 

11. Philippus, fidi mei amici vicinus, hoc nuper narrabat. 

12. Amicus meus Philippus, mi fide vicine, medico hoc 

demonstrabat. 

13. Patruus medici fido vicini amico hoc nuper narrabat. 

14. Amicus meus medicus patruo meo Philippo hoc nuper 

recitabat. 

15. Medicus, mi patrue, amico meo fido hoc nuper narrabat. 

16. Fidi mei vicini amicus medico hoc nuper nuntiabat. 

17. Patrui mei medicus, O Philippe, hoc amico narrat. 

18. Fi(Ji amici vicinus medico meo hoc recitat. 

19. Vicinus meus fido patrui mei amico hoc demonstrat. 

20. Fidus medici mei amicus patruo vicini hoc nuntiat. 



THE MASTERY SERIES. 



Text II. 

1 2 364 8 6677 

21. Julius related how tliy cousin wounded tlie wolf with a 

7 9 12 11 10 12 

sword and set thy son free. 

22. Thy friend, oh my son Julius, was lately relating this to 

thy cousin. 

23. My trusty cousin was wounding the wolf with a sword and 

liberating me. 

24. A neighbour related how a panther was lacerating both thy 

friend and a rustic. 

25. He was showing both to thy son and to mine how the 

doctor's servant provoked my uncle. 

26. He was stimulating thy cousin, oh Julius, to wound the 

wolf with this sword and set the rustic free. 

27. He recited how thy intrepid friend, oh cousin, was wounding 

a wolf with thy trusty sword. 

28. The servant was relating to my uncle how thy friend lately 

vexed and provoked me. 

29. Thy son's friend has wounded Julius' servant and set mine 

free. 

30. He stimulated the friend of the neighbour to wound the 

barbarian with a sword and liberate me. 

31. Thy son recited to the people how a neighbour was just 

now announcing this to the tyrant. 

32. As the slave relates, an irate neighbour is wounding both 

thy son and servant with a sword. 

33. He recited to thy friend how the barbarian wounded the 

panther and the panther lacerated the barbarian. 

34. Thy uncle is relating to my cousin how a barbarian is 

wounding the wolf. 

35. He is stimulating the servant to wound the wolf with a 

sword and set free my friend Julius. 

36. Thy cousin has announced to the doctor's son how the 

panther is lacerating a wolf. 

37. Julius announces, my son, that the rustic is wounding my 

trusty servant with a sword. 

38. He relates to my cousin that a neighbour is wounding the 

doctor with thy sword, my good Julius. 

39. Thy son was relating to a cousin that the doctor was 

liberating my friend. 

40. He related both to my son and to the doctor that thy 

neighbour was provoking me. 



LATIN MANUAL. 



Text II. 



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21 Julius narravit iit sobrlnus tuiis lupum gladio vulneraret et 

10 11 12 

f ilium tiiiim liberaret. 

22. Amicus tuus, O mi fill Jull, sobrino tuo hoc nuper narrabat. 

23. Fidus meus sobrinus lupum gladio vulnerabat et me 

liberabat. 

24. Vicinus narravit ut pardus et amicum tuiim et rusticum 

laceraret. 

25. Et tuo filio et meo monstrabat ut servus medici patruum 

m^eum provocaret. 

26. Sobrinum tuum, O Jull, stimiilabat ut lupum hoc gladio 

vulneraret et rusticum liberaret. 

27. Eecitavit ut intrepidus tuus amicus, O sobrine, fido tuo 

gladio lupum vulneraret. 

28. Servus patruo meo narrabat ut amicus tuus me nuper 

vexaret et provocaret. 

29. Filii tui amicus Julii servum vulneravit et meum liberavit. 

30. Amicum vicini stimulavit ut barbarum gladio vulneraret et 

me liberaret. 

31. Filius tuus populo recitavit ut vicinus tyranno hoc nuper 

nuntiaret. 

32. Ut servus narrat, iratus vicinus et filium tuum et servum 

gladio vulnerat. 

33. Amico tuo recitavit ut barbarus pardum vulneraret et pardus 

barbarum laceraret. 

34. Patruus tuus sobrino meo narrat ut barbarus lupum vulneret. 

35. Servum stimulat ut lupum gladio vulneret et amicum meum 

Julium liberet. 

36. Sobrinus tuus filio medici nuntiavit ut pardus lupum laceret. 

37. Nuntiat Julius, mi fili, rusticum fidum meum servum gladio 

vulnerare. 

38. Sobrino meo narrat vicinum tuo gladio, mi Juli, medicum 

vulnerare. 

39. Filius tuus sobrino narrabat medicum amicum meum 

liberare. 

40. Et filio meo et medico narravit vicinum tuum me provocare. 



THE MASTERY SERIES. 



Text III. 



12 12 2 354 7 7 

41. "Would not tlie messenger, if that villager had besought 

6 12 12 11 11 8 10 10 9 9 

him, have hastened with thee to call back the master ? 

42. Would the villager, if thy servant, oh Martins, had besought 

him, have called back the rustic to me ? 

43. My friend has hastened to wound thy uncle's faithless 

messenger with a sword. 

44. If thy cousin had entreated his friend, would he not have 

liberated the slave ? 

45. Philip beseeches my friend Martins not to wound the 

neighbour's servant with a sword. 

46. Would not thy friend, oh cousin, have wounded the wolf 

with a sword, had he lacerated thee ? 

47. Did the neighbour beseech the messenger not to liberate that 

villager with me ? 

48. Has not Paul besought Hortensius not to provoke the mad 

villager ? 

49. Let the messenger relate to thy cousin, not to thy uncle, 

how the servant is asking his master for this. 

50. Oh master, stimulate Martins to wound the wolf and set 

free the villager. 

51. Had thy uncle entreated him, would not that villager have 

hastened with Philip to call the doctor ? 

52. The doctor was relating to my uncle that the servant had 

liberated both me and my friend. 

53. The rustic exclaims that a madman has wounded the master 

with thy sword, oh my son. 

54. Would not that servant, if the doctor besought him, hasten 

with me to liberate the master's son ? 

55. Would not thy son hasten to liberate thee, if the panther 

were to lacerate thee ? 

56. Would not Manlius, if thy son called him, hasten with me 

to wound the wolf ? 

57. A neighbour exclaimed that the madman had hastened to 

wound the master with thy sword. 

58. My friend announces that thou hast stimulated my cousin 

to hasten to liberate the rustic's son. 

59. The rustic announced, oh master, that the tyrant was 

expecting thee and thy son. 

60. The servant wounded the neighbour with thy sword, in 

order that he might not relate this to the lord. 



LATIN MANUAL. 



Text III. 



1 23 4-56 7 8^9 

41. Nonne nuntius, si paganus iste euni oravisset, ad dominum 

^10 11 „ „ ^ „ 

revocandum tecum properasset ? 

42. Paganusne, Marti, si servus tuus eum oravisset, rusticum 

ad me revocavisset ? 

43. Amicus meus properavit ut patrui tui infldum nuntium 

gladio vulneret. 

44. Nonne amicus, si eum sobrinus tuus orasset, servum 

liberavisset ? 

45. Philippus amicum meum Martium orat ne servum vicini 

gladio vulneret. 

46. Nonne amicus tuus, O sobrine, lupum gladio vulneravisset, 

si te laceravisset ? 

47. Yicinusne nuntium oravit ne paganum istum mecum liberaret ? 

48. Nonne Paulus Hortensium oravit ne paganum insanum 

provocet ? 

49. Narret nuntius sobrino tuo, non pati-uo, ut servus hoc 

dominum oret. 

50. O domine, Martium stimula ut lupum vulneret et paganum 

liberet. 

51. Nonne paganus iste, si patruus tuus eum oravisset, ad 

medicum vocandum cum Philippo properavisset ? 

52 Medicus patruo meo narrabat servum et me et amicum 
meum liberavisse. 

53. Eusticus exclamat insanum gladio tuo, mi fili, dominum 

vulneravisse. 

54. Nonne iste servus, si medicus eum oraret, ad filium magistri 

liberandum mecum properaret ? 

55. Nonne te, si pardus laceret, filius tuus properet ut liberet ? 

56. Nonne Manlius, si eum filius tuus vocaret, ad lupum 

vulnerandum mecum properaret ? 

57. Exclamavit vicinus insanum properavisse ut magistrum 

gladio tuo vulneraret. 

58. Amicus meus nuntiat te sobrinum meum stimulavisse ut 

ad filium rustici liberandum properet. 

59. Eusticus nuntiavit, O magister, tyrannum te filiumque 

tuimi exspectare. 

60. Servus vicinum gladio tuo vulneravit, ne hoc domino 

narraret. 



THE MASTERY SERIES. 



Text IV. 



2 1 1 3 12 12 12 7 

61. That most excellent freedman would have thrown himself 

8 9 11 10 11 4 6 5 5 

even into the rapid river to save the boy. 

62. The master threw the madman's sword into mid-stream in 

order that he might not wound the boy. 

63. The rustic, although the boy were not to ask him, would 

throw himself into the river to save thee, oh master. 

64. Did not that freedman near you save my cousin by 

throwing himself into the great river ? 

65. The villager would have wounded that faithless freedman 

with a sword even in midstream. 

66. Thy magnanimous friend threw himself into the river 

Ehone to save my boy. 

67. Has not the rustic shewn himself of great courage in 

preserving the villager's boy ? 

68. The boy affirms that, although thy friend had not asked 

him, he had thrown himself into the river to save thee. 

69. The rustic was announcing that the doctor was showing to 

my friend the best mode of wounding a panther. 

70. "Was not the master calling to him just now the villager 

who was best at wounding a wolf ? 

71. The boy was beseeching the doctor to hasten to the master 

lest the faithless messenger should wound him. 

72. Thy freedman, although the neighbour stimulated him, 

did not throw himself into the rapid river to save thee. 

73. That doctor by you, if the freedman were to summon him, 

would relate this to thy uncle in the best manner. 

74. The slave should not have related to the boy's friend that he 

himself had provoked the rustic. 

75. Philip relates that a neighbour has stimulated the freedman 

to wound the wolf with a sword. 

76. Has my friend related that I have besought that very 

excellent doctor to save the boy ? 

77. He was telling this to my friend lest he should wound the 

freedman and liberate the rustic. 

78. That freedman, even when a boy, entreated the rustic to 

hasten with him to wound a wolf. 

79. He has told this to the master, in order that if thy cousin 

should ask him, he may hasten to recall me. 

80. Had the doctor stimulated the neighbour, he would have 

thrown himself into that rapid river to save my boy. 



LATIN MANUAL. 



Text IV. 



1 234 5 6789 

61. Optimus iste libertus ad puerum servandum se etiam in 

10 11 ^ 12 

rapidum fluvium jactavisset. 

62. Dominus insani gladium in medium fluvium jactavit, ne 

puerum vulneraret. 

63. Eusticus, etsi puer eumnon oret, ad te, magister, servandum 

se in fluvium jactet. 

64. Nonne iste libertus se in magnum fluvium jactando sobrinum 

meum servavit ? 

65. Paganus etiam in medio fluvio infidum istum libertum gladio 

vulneravisset. 

66. Magnanimus tuus amicus ad puerum meum servandum se 

in Ebodanum fluvium jactavit. 

67. Nonne rusticus in puero pagani servando se magnanimum 

monstravit ? 

68. Affirmat puer, se etsi non amicus tuus orasset ad te 

■ servandum se in fluvium jactavisse. 

69. Eusticus nuntiabat medicum amico meo optimum pardi 

vulnerandi modum monstrare. 

70. Nonne dominus optimum lupo vulnerando paganum nuper 

ad se vocabat ? 

71. Puer medicum orabat ut ad dominum properaret ne eum 

infidus nuntius vulneraret. 

72. Libertus tuus, etiamsi vicinus eum stimulavit, non se ad te 

servandum in rapidum fluvium jactavit. 

73. Medicus iste, si libertus eum vocet, optimo modo boo 

patruo tuo narret. 

74. Servus non amico pueri narravisset se rusticum provocavisse. 

75. Narrat Philippus vicinum libertum stimulasse ut lupum 

gladio vulneret. 

76. Narravitne amicus mens me medicum istum optimum 

oravisse ut puerum servet ? 

77. Hoc amico meo narrabat ne libertum vulneraret et rusticum 

liberaret. 

78. Libertus iste rusticum etiam puer oravit ut secum ad lupum 

vulnerandum properaret. 

79. Hoc magistro narravit, ut si sobrinus tuus eum oret ad me 

revocandum properet. 

80. Vicinus, si medicus eum stimulasset, ad puerum meum 

servandum se in rapidum istum fluvium jactasset. 



10 THE MASTERY SERIES. 



Text V. 

441 2 311 5 10 10 7 

81. There is not anyone here, is there, who may blame that 

6 8 9 9 11 15 15 13 12 13 14 14 14 

farmer even a little, for having caused the mad bull to be slain ? 

82. That farmer, oh my friend Hortensius, who was blaming 

my uncle, is not here, is he ? 

83. Who is there here to blame my cousin even a little for 

having caused the slave to be liberated ? 

84. The farmer, who wounded the freedman with yonder sword, 

is not thy friend, is he ? 

85. Let not the boy tell the farmer, how my friend has wounded 

the servant with that sword. 

86. What slave, if the master were to stimulate him, would not 

throw himself even into the river Ehine to save thee ? 

87. The master is just the man to blame the farmer if he were 

to cause this to be told to the neighbours. 

88. That miserable boy threw himself into this .great river 

because he had wounded his uncle. 

89. With what sword, oh Manlius, my faithful friend, did that 

black slave wound thee ? 

90. It is the part of a faithful slave to throw himself even into 

the rapid river to save his most excellent master. 

91. Is the rustic come ? The villager's having the mad bull slain 

depends on that. 

92. Whoever here is friendly to the master, let him throw 

himself into the river to save the bull. 

93. Let not anyone blame my friend, for having slain the mad 

bull to save thy cousin. 

94. Is not that servant to be blamed even a little, who did not 

hasten to call the doctor ? 

95. That farmer did not ask thee for the sword with which to 

wound the wolf, did he ? 

96 He who wounded my cousin with the sword entreated the 
doctor to take pains to cure him. 

97. Is not the boy to be blamed for having let loose the mad 

bull by night ? 

98. Who armed the freedman with a sword and stimulated him 

to wound the tyrant ? 

99. So angry is the tyrant that he is having the freedman 

slain for not having related this. 

100. Let thy son hasten to tell the master that a panther has 
lacerated the big bull. 



LATI^Sr MANUAL. 11 



Text V. 

12 345^6 7 8 9 10 

81. Numquis hie est qui colonura ilium vel paullum culpet 

11^ 12 13 14 15 

quod rabidum taurum necandum curaverit ? 

82. O mi amice Hortensi, num hie est colonus ille qui patruum 

meum culpabat ? 

83. Quis hie est qui sobrinum meum vel paullum culpet quod 

servum liberandum curaverit ? 

84. Num colonus, qui libertum illo gladio vulneravit, tuus 

amicus est? 

85. Ne puer eolono narret, ut amicus meus eo gladio servum 

vulneraverit. 

86. Qui servus, si dominus eum stimulet, non se ad te servandum 

etiam in Ehenum fluvium jactet ? 

87. Dominus is est qui colonum culpet si hoc vicino narrandum 

curet. 

88. Miser iste puer se in magnum hune fluvium jactavit, qui 

patruum vulneravisset. 

89. Quo gladio to, Manli, mi fide amice, niger iste servus 

vulneravit ? 

90. Fidi sei-vi est se ad dominum optimum servandum etiam in 

rapidum fluvium jactare. 

91. Adestne rusticus? in eo est ut paganus rabidum taurum 

necandum curet. 

92. Quisquis hie domino amicus est, se in fluvium jactet ut 

taurum servet. 

93. Ne quis amicum meum culpet, quod ad sobrinum tuum 

servandum rabidum taurum vulneraverit. 

94. Nonne is servus, qui non properavit ut medicum vocaret, 

vel paullum eulpandus est ? 

95. Num ille colonus te gladium oravit quo lupum vulneraret ? 

96. Is qui sobrinum meum gladio vulneravit medicum oravit 

ut eum sanandum curaret. 

97. Nonne eulpandus est puer qui rabidum taurum noctu 

liberaverit ? 

98. Quis libertum gladio armavit et stimulavit ut tyrannum 

vulneraret ? 

99. Adeo iratus est tyrannus ut libertum necandum curet qui 

non hoc narraverit. 

100. Filius tuus properet ut domino nuntiet pardum magnum 
taurum laceravisse. 



12 THE MASTERY SERIES. 



Text VI. 



12 7733 366 6 5 

101. He indeed handed over to the steward to be scourged his 

6 4 8 13 13 12 12 11 11 11 9 10 ^ 10 

own slave, whom he supposed to be going to attack him by night. 

102. There is no one here, is there, whom the master may- 

blame for not having saved the insane mendicant ? 

103. Let no one tell my uncle how the boy has thrown the 

whip into the river. 

104. The boy did not ask anyone, did he, not to relate how the 

servant had flogged him ? 

105. If the farmer should entreat anyone to attack the mad 

bull, he would entreat my cousin the Spaniard. 

106. The farmer indeed supposes that the bailiff is relating this 
to the master, in order that no one may blame the messenger. 

107. The boy announced that the slave, whom he thought 

the best of all, wounded him by night by the river. 

108. Who did not know that, if the freedman were present, he 
would certainly throw himself into the river to save the boy ? 

109. The neighbour thought the farmer mad for not relating 

this about the slave to the lord. 

110. Does he think that the villager will not throw that sword, 
with which he has wounded the servant, into the river ? 

111. Thy friend, oh my cousin Livius, was fancying that the 

barbarian would fight if any one vexed him. 

112 If any man has thrown a sword at anyone and wounded 
him in the least, will he not have to be blamed ? 

113. Anyone would expect that an angry slave would attack 

him, were anyone to arm him with a sword. 

114. Who can blame the steward in whatever way he may 

have attacked that furious rustic ? 

115. Suppose the master thought that the bailiff would attack 
the farmer, he would not arm him with a sword, would he ? 

116. Would anyone have been thinking that he ought to be 
blamed because he had caused the mad bull to be killed ? 

117. Not even the master would have blamed the farmer, had 

he not been friendly to the bailiff. 

118. The farmer has a freedman of such sort that he would 

throw himself into the river to save him. 

119. A barbarian, and he too a slave, is going to throw himself 

into midstream to save the boy. 

120. Whom did the tyrant lately cause to be put to death, 

because he thought he would attack him ? 



LATIN MANUAL. 13 

Text VI. 

_1 2 3 4 5 6 7 

101. Hic quidem villico servum suum flagellandmn mandavit 

8 9 10 11 _ 12 13 

quern se noctu oppugnaturum esse piitavit. 

102. Numquis hic est quern dominus culpet quod inendicum 

insanum non servaverit ? 

103. Ne quis patruo nieo narret ut puer flagellum in fluvium 

jactaverit. 

104. Numquem puer oravit ne narraret ut servus eum 

flagellavisset. 

105. Si quein colonus oret ut rabidum taurum oppugnet, sobri- 

num meum Hispanum oret. 

106. Colonus quidem putat villicum hoc magistro narrare ne 

quis nuntium culpet. 

107. Puer nuntiavit, servum quern optimum putaret eum noctu 

ad fluvium vulnerare. 

108. Quis ignorabat quin, si libertus adesset, certe se ad puerum 

servanduin in fluvium jactaturus esset ? 

109. Yicinus colonum insanum putavit qui non hoc domino de 

servo narraret. 

110. Putatne paganum non ilium gladium quo servum vulner- 

avit in fluvium jactaturum esse ? 

111. Putabat amii;us tuus, O mi sobrine Livi, barbarum si quis 

cum vcxaret pugnaturum esse. 

112. Nonne culpandus erit, si quis in quem gladium jactaverit 

et paullum vulneraverit ? 

113. Exspectet quis servum iratum se oppugnaturum esse, si 

quis eum gladio armet. 

114. Quis villicum culpaverit, quoquo modo iratum iUum 

rusticum oppugnaverit ? 

115. Putaverit dominus villicum colonum oppugnaturum esse; 

nuin eum gladio armaverit ? 

116. Numquis putaret eum culpandum esse qui rabidum taunim 

necandum curavisset ? 

117. Ne dominus quidem colonum culpavisset, si non villico 

amicus esset. 

118. Colono est is libertus qui se ad eum servandum in fluvium 

jactet. 

119. Barbarus, et is quidem servus, ad puerum servandum se in 

medium fluvium jactaturus est. 

120. Quem nuper tyrannus necandum curavit, qucm se oppugna- 

turum esse putaret ? 



14 THE MASTERY SERIES. 



Text VII. 

12 233 3 645 4 7 

121. "Wlien the roof of the dining-room next to thy bedroom was 

7 7 8 9 9 11 10 11 17 

being burnt, then the attendant, being very frightened, rode 

15 16 16 12 14 14 13 

round the town to ask for aid. 

122. Since the roof of his own cubicle was being consumed, the 

boy hastened into the town to summon his uncle. 

123. The farmer wounded the attendant with a very big sword, 

when he attacked him in the nearest dining-room. 

124. He who saves not a friend, when the roof is being consumed, 

is vehemently to be blamed or even to be scourged. 

125. Since the slave had wounded the master in his bedroom, 
the attendant, being thoroughly frightened, rode to ask for help. 

126. The bailiff's son if he were not to tend the bull, would be 

blamed and scourged by the master. 

127. Because thy cubicle was being burnt, thy servant hastened 

through the town to ask for help. 

128. Is he so mad as to throw my sword into the river, though 

he thinks that the attendant will attack me ? 

129. "Was not the dinuig-room next to thy bedroom, oh Curtius, 

being burnt by night ? 

130. Curtius is congratulating the prefect in the dining-room, 

because the barbarian has not wounded him. 

131 The tribune is plainly despairing ; who can stimulate him 
to fight in aid of the town ? 

132. The freedman rode to the town for aid from that house 

which was being burnt by night. 

133. Who committed to Curtius that best of swords, which he 

just now threw into the river ? 

134. Who would not have the bull slain, which has just now 

attacked a tribune in the town ? 

135. The farmer has a slave whom the bailiff has flogged 

because he falsely accused the boy. 

136. Is it neighbourly to set free the bull which the farmer has 

entrusted to the bailiff to be tended ? 

137. If any boy shall have thrown the master's sword into the 

river, he will deserve to be flogged. 

138. This sword is for wounding him who may attack me. 

139. That master has entrusted a very small sword to the boy, 

lest the villager should attack him. 

140. Who is there who does not think that a rustic who 

has attacked me with a sword ought to be flogged ? 



LATIIS' MAXITAL. 15 



Text VII. 

1 2 3_ 4 5 6 7_ 

121. Quum tectum triclmii ciibiculo tuo proximi cremaretur, 

8 9 10 11 12 13^ 14 15 

turn minister maxime perterritiis ad auxilium rogandum circum 

16 17 

oppidum equitavit. 

122. Quum tectum cubic uli sui cremaretur, puer ad patruum 

vocandum in oppidum properavit. 

123. Colonus ministrum, quum se in proximo triclinio oppug- 

naret, maximo gladio vulnera\it. 

124. Qui non amicum servat, quum crematur tectum, vehementer 

culpandus est vel etiam flagellandus. 

125. Quum servus in cubiculo dominum vulneravisset, minister 

maxime peiterritus equitavit auxilium rogaturus. 

126. Filius villici, si non taurum curet, a domino culpetur et 

flagelletur. 

127. Quod cubiculum tuum cremabatur, servus tuus per oppidum 

properavit auxilium oraturus. 

128. Quum iDutet ministrum me oppugnaturum esse, niun adeo 

insanus est ut gladium meum in fluvium jactet ? 

129. Nonne triclinium cubiculo tuo, O Cm-ti, proximum noctu 

cremabatur ? 

130. Curtius praefecto in triclinio gratulatur, quod non eum 

barbarus vulneravit. 

131. Plane desperat tribunus ; quis eum stimulet ut pro oppido 

pugnet ? 

132. Libertus ab illo domicilio, quod noctu cremabatur, ad 

oppidum auxilio equitavit. 

133. Quis Curtio optimum ilium gladium mandavit, quem nuper 

in medium fluvium jactavit ? 

134. Quis non taurum necandum curet, qui nuper in oppido 

tribunum oppugnavit? 

135. Colono est sei-vus quem villicus flagellavit quod puerum 

falso accusavit. 

136. Num vicini est taurum liberare quem colonus villico' 

curandum mandavit ? 

137. Si qui puer gladium domini in fluvium jactaverit, flagel- 

landus erit. 

138. Hie gladius ad eum vulnerandum est qui me oppugnet. 

139. Magister iste perpauUum gladium puero mandavit ne 

paganus eum oppugnet. 

140. Quis est quin 1-usticum qui me gladio vulneraverit flagel- 

landum esse putet ? 



16 THE MASTERY SERIES. 



Text VIII. 

112233 4 4 55 14 

141. And yet at dawn, the doctor Jbeing absent, the servant had 

M 6 9 7 7 7 8 8 8 10 U 

carried me wounded in the shoulder by a javelin thence into 

12 13 

yonder hall. 

142. This javelin is thine, my Curtius ; but that sword is mine. 

143. And yet it is necessary that in the absence of the doctor 
the attendant should carry thee to the neighbour's at dawn. 

144. The doctor having been wounded in the shoulder by a 
javelin, it was said the frightened attendant asked thee for aid. 

145. The slave, when asked for help, hastened to the house 
to carry the most excellent master down from the roof. 

146. Yet the farmer's javelin must be carried into that bedroom 

next the hall, lest the madman should wound him. 

147. And yet arm thyself at dawn with this sword, which is a 

cubit longer than that sword. 

148. That very long javelin, with which the servant attacked the 

master, was thrown by him into the river. 

149. That hall was not thine, my benevolent friend, was it, 

which was burnt at dawn ? 

150. He, was kinder than thy cousin, who, when the roof was 
burnt, did not have the wounded man carried out of the hall. 

151. What ? is that javelin mine, that my uncle has committed 

to Philip, with which to wound the panther ? 

152. And when he had wounded the rustic with a syvord, 
he rode, armed with a javelin, against that perfidious slave. 

153. Whence was it that that excellent attendant had caused 

the wounded man to be carried into the hall ? 

154. It was dawn when the messenger was 'relating that the 

hall had been burnt by night. 

155. Whither has the doctor had the wounded man carried 

down ? Surely not into the burnt bedroom ? 

156. In what manner has the doctor cured the wounded man? 

Was it not with wine ? 

157. He was about to hand a sword to the servant; one would 

have thought he was going to slay thee. 

158. Who will there be who will not blame him if he should not 

carry the boy to be healed ? 

159. Philip exclaims that his uncle's bedroom has been burnt, 

and yet the slave is not here to help. 

160. Even a boy thinks the barbarian to be mad because he so 

vehemently deplores the burning of the town. 



LATIN MANUAL. 17 



Text VIII. 

12 3 4, ^ 1«^„l 

141. Atqui diluciilo, medico absente, famulus me hiimerum 

8 9 10 11 12 13 14 

jaculo vulneratum inde in illud atrium portaverat. 

142. Hoc jaculum tuum est, mi Curti; sed ille gladius meus est. 

143. Atqui necesse est ut medico absente famulus te diluculo ad 

vicini portet. 

144. Quum medicus humerum jaculo vulneratus esset, perterritus 

famulus te auxilium orare narrabatur. 

145. Servus auxilium rogatus ad domicilium properavit ut 

dominum optimum de tecto deportaret. 

146. At jaculum coloni in cubiculum illud atrio proximum 

portandum est ne insanus eum vulneret. 

147. Atqui te diluculo hoc gladio arma, qui cubito longior est 

isto gladio. 

148. Longissimum illud jaculum, quo servus dominum oppug- 

navit, ab eo in fluvium jactatum est. 

149. Num id atrium tuum erat, mi benevole amice, quod diluculo 

crematum est ? 

150. Benevolentior erat sobrino tuo,qui tecto cremato vulneratum 

non ex atrio portandum curavit. 

151. Quid? num id jaculum meum est quod patruus meus 

Philippo mandavit, quo pardum vulneret ? 

152. Qui quum rusticum gladio vulneravisset, jaculo armatus 

in servum ilium perf idum equitavit. 

153. Unde optimus iste famulus vulneratum in atrium portandum 

curaverat ? 

154. Diluculum erat quum nuntius narrabat atrium noctu 

crematum esse ? 

155. Quo medicus vulneratum deportandum curavit ? num in 

crematum cubiculum ? 

156. Quomodo medicus vulneratum sanavit ? Nonne vino ? 

157. Gladium servo mandaturus erat; putaret quis eum te 

necaturum esse. 

158. Quis erit quin ilium culpaturus sit, si non puerum sanandum 

portet ? 

159. Exclamat Philippus patrui sui cubiculum crematum esse 

atqui servum non auxilio adesse. 

160. Etiam puer barbarum insanum esse putat quod oppidum 

crematum tam vehementer deplorat. 
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Text IX. 

1118 5 2 3 2 22 

161. For the rest, it would have been anyone's duty whatever, 

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no less than thy servant's, to announce the fire as early as possible. 

162. If thou wishest to save the boy, precipitate thyself from 

here into the river. 

163. The master asked the boy, first what he had related to his 

friend, then what he was relating to the neighbour. 

164. The master rode at dawn to the town to ask for help, 

because his horse had been lacerated by the panther. 

165. The farmer, with whose sword the servant has wounded 
the master, is not less to be blamed than the servant himself. 

166. There was no one who did not think that boy insane, 

because he had provoked the mad bull. 

167. Who doubts that our friend, had he been here, would 
have handed over the incendiary to the freedman to be flogged. 

168. The boy asked privately, what man the freedman was 

going to summon to carry the master out of the hall. 

169. Did the neighbour suppose that the villager, if anyone you 
please had besought him, would not have announced the fire ? 

170. Would the cousin have related this to our neighbour if 

he had been very angry ? 

171. However, the freedman announced that he would attack 
the bull by night with a javelin, inasmuch as it was mad. 

172. Our doctor was as angry as possible because the servant 

was not flogged for having accused his friend falsely. 

173. Whose javelin did the slave cast into the fire when he had 

been flogged ? Was it this villager's ? 

174. As the messenger related, the faithful slave had resisted 

the barbarian to prevent him attacking the master. 

175. Is the attendant so mad as to carry the wounded man into 

the burnt hall ? 

176. For the rest, it is his duty to cause thee to be healed who 

has hurt thee ; if not, whose is it ? 

177. That master is more kind-hearted than that he should hand 

over this boy to the bailiff to be scourged. 

178. He who has not asked for help for the master is to be 

equally blamed with him who has not saved him. 

179. The freedman has armed even a tender lad with a javelin, 
with which to wound the barbarian when he makes his attack. 

180. How angry was the tribune, when the messenger had 
related to him how the barbarian was wounding the boy. 



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Text IX. 

1 2 3 45 678 

161. Ceterum cujusvis fiiisset non minus quam servi tiil 

9 10 11 ^ 

quamprimum incendmin nuntiafe. 

162. Si puerum servare vis, hiric te in fluvium praecipita. 

163. Puerum rogavit magister, primum quid amico suonarravisset, 

et turn quid vicino narraret. 

164. Dominus diluculo ad oppidum equitavit auxilium rogaturus, 

cujus equus a pardo laceratus esset. 

165. Colonus, cujus gladio servus dominum vulneravit, non 

minus culpandus est quam servus ipse. 

166. Nemo erat quin puerum ilium insanum putaret, qui 

rabidum taurum provocasset. 

167. Quis dubitat quin amicus noster, si adfuisset, incendiarium 

liberto flagellandum mandaturus fuisset. 

168. Puer privatim rogavit, quem libertus ad dominum ex atrio 

portandum advocaturus esset. 

169. Putavitne vicinus paganum, si quivis oravisset, non incen- 

dium nuntiaturum fuisse ? 

170. Num. sobrinus hoc vicino nostro narravisset si maxime 

iratus esset? 

171. Ceterum nuntiavit libertus se taurum, si quidem rabidus 

esset, noctu jaculo oppugnaturum esse. 

172. Medicus noster quam maxime iratus erat, quod servus non 

flagellatus est, qui amicum ejus falso accusavisset. 

173. Cujum jaculum servus, quum flagellatus esset, in incendium 

jactavit ? Hujusne pagani ? 

174. Quemadmodum narravit nuntius, servus fidus barbaro 

repugnaverat quominus dominum oppugnaret. 

175. Num adeo insanus est famulus ut vulneratum in crematum 

atrium portet ? 

176. Ceterum ejus est te sanandum curare qui vulneravit ; si 

minus, cujus est ? 

177. Benevolentior est ille dominus quam ut hunc puerum 

villico flagellandum mandet. 

178. Qui non pro domino auxilium rogaverit aeque culpandus 

erit atque qui non dominum servaverit. 

179. Libertus etiam tenerum puerum jaculo armavit quo bar- 

barum vulneret quum oppugnet. 

180. Quam iratus erat tribunus quum ei nuntius narravisset ut 

barbarus puerum vulneraret. 
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Text X. 

4 4 14322 2 56 6 

181. He would also give aid to the sacristan, unless he thought 

12 10 U 12 13 13 7 7 8 9 9 

that no great danger would accrue to him where he was. 

182. And so, unless he had thought that no danger would accrue 

to him, he would not have attacked thee. 

183. He had indeed thought that there would have been no slave 

who would not have fought to save the master. 

184. Where will the bailiff be ? He will not hide himself, from 
its being so very dangerous to attack the panther, will he ? 

185. Unless this javelin shall be hidden somewhere or other, 
will there be any rustic not wounded by the madman ? 

186. He did not ride through the town to ask for help, because 

the fire had been already extinguished. 

187. Where is the boy who has besought the farmer not to give 

any whip to the bailiff ? 

188. Just as he lately blamed me, in the same way too he is 

said to have blamed his own servant. 

189. He rode to the farmer's house, that his slave might not 
relate anything about the fire to that wounded master. 

190. Where is the sword which the farmer was about to hand 

over to the tribune at a great price ? 

191. Except to save the sacred temple the sacristan would not 

throw himself' into any danger. 

192. He would relate anything falsely to that tribune, unless he 

thought that he would be flogged. 

193. He had related in what danger the boy would be, unless 

some one carried him into some bedroom or other. 

194. Unless some one shall have come from some place or other 
to help, the roof of the hall will have been burnt down. 

195. What was Catullus announcing to yonder farmer ? Was it 

that the slave was going to attack his baiUff ? 

196. My cousin was so angry, because the tribune did not arm 

him with a sword, that he gave no help. 

197. Does he also think that there would be no danger if any- 

one should give a sword to the madman ? 

198. Although he would have been in no danger unless he 
provoked the wolf, the terrified boy rode into the river. 

199. Surely that servant will not be flogged unless he has 

attacked the sacristan in the temple ? 

200. Did he think that there would have been no danger to 

anyone if he had set the bull free ? 



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Text X. 

12 3 45 678 9^ 

181. Item aeditiio auxilium daret, nisi piitaret ei iibi esset 

10 11 12 ^ 13 13 ^ 

nullum magnopere periciilum fiiturum esse. 

182. Itaque, nisi putavisset nullum sibi periculum futurum esse, 

non te oppugnavisset. 

183. Putaverat quidem nullum futurum fuisse servum quin ad 

dominum servandum pugnaturus esset. 

184. Ubi erit villicus ? num se celabit quod magnopere peri- 

culosum erit pardum oppugnare ? 

185. Nisi hoc jaculum ubi vis celabitur, num ullus erit rusticus 

quin ab insano vulneretur ? 

186. Non per oppidum equitavit ad auxilium rogandum, quum 

jam extinctum esset incendium. 

187. Ubi est puer qui colonum oravit ne ullum flagellum villico 

daret ? 

188. Quemadmodum me nuper, itidem quoque servum suum 

culpavisse narratur. 

189. Ad coloni domicilium equitavit, ne quid servus ejus de 

incendio vulnerato illi domino narraret. 

190. Ubi est gladius, quem colonus tribune magno pretio 

mandaturus erat ? 

191. Nonnisi ad sacrum templum servandum aedituus se nullum 

in periculum jactet. 

192. Quidvis falso tribuno isti narraret, nisi putaret futurum 

esse ut flagellaretur. 

193. Narraverat quo in periculo puer futurus esset, nisi quis 

eum in quodvis cubiculum portaret. 

194. Nisi quis undeunde adfuerit auxilio, tectum atrii con- 

crematum erit. 

195. Quid colono illi nuntiabat Catullus ? Num servum villicum 

ejus oppugnaturum esse ? 

196. Ita iratus est sobrinus mens, quod tribunus non eum gladio 

armavit, ut non auxilium daret. 

197. Putatne item nullum futurum esse periculum si quis insano 

gladium det ? 

198. Quamquam nuUo in periculo fuisset nisi lupum provocaret, 

perterritus puer in fluvium equitavit. 

199. Num futurum est ut servus ille, nisi aedituum in templo 

oppugnaverit, liagelletur ? 

200. Putavitne nullum cuiquam periculum futurum fuisse, si 

taurum liberavisset ? 



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Text XI. 

22 1 3333744 

201. The temple's vestibule being on fire, tbey wake the other 

4556 8 9 9 12UU10 10 

man out of sleep, while the sacristan tries to save the statue. 

202. The servant, having tried to save the boy who was wounded 

in the shoulder, was being honoured by the master. 

203. Did not the freedman cause thee to be tended in. a neigh- 

bour's hall while thy cubicle was blazing ? 

204. "WTien the barbarian attacked, the servant had not yet 

carried the wounded master out of the hall. 

205. My friend tried to wake the boy that he might summon 

the sacristan to save the statue. 

206. If anyone had tried alone to wound the wolf with a sword^ 

he would have been in great danger. 

207. They think that the barbarian during the fire would not 

have awakened the master, much less the slave. 

208. He awoke not only the boy but also my cousin, when my 

jocose uncle was relating that story. 

209. It would not be anyone's duty, provided that the doctor 

were not yet come, to attend to the wounded man. 

210. Were they not carrying thee into the neighbour's domicile, 

while the temple was recently blazing ? 

211. The bailiff related to the farmer, how, while the barbarian 

attacked the temple, they were wounding each other. 

212. The sacristan despaired, although, while the vestibule of 
the house was blazing, he was summoned into no danger. 

213. They hope for this solely, that it may happen that the 

statue may be preserved. 

214. Would you think him sane who should attempt alone to 

attack the angry panther ? 

215. The roof is ablaze ; if you want to save your friend, do not 

wait till the other rouses him from sleep. 

216. Is the slave here who was the first to wake the sacristan 

when the temple was on fire ? 

217. That tribune is going to be a neighbour to my uncle till 

he be called away to fight. 

218. When the stable was blazing, the master was hastening to 

save the horse from the fire. 

219. While the temple blazed, one and another hastened round 

the town to summon help. 

220. The tribune, though wounded in one shoulder, was however 

bearing me to the doctor with the aid of Catullus. 



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Text XI. 

12 3 4 5 6 7 

201. Vestibiilo tempi! flagrante alterum e somno suscitant, 

8 9 10 11 12 

duin aedituiis simulacrum servare conatur. 

202. Famulus, pueruni humerum vulneratum servare conatus, 

a domino honorabatur. 

203. Nonne libertus, quoad cubiculum tuum flagrabat, te vicini 

in atrio servandum curavit. 

204. Barbaro oppugnante nondum servus vulneratum dominum 

ex atrio portaverat. 

205. Amicus mens puerum e somno suscitare conatus est ut aedi- 

tuum ad simulacrum servandum advocaret. 

206. Si quis solus lupum gladio vulnerare conatus esset, magno 

in periculo fuisset. 

207. Putant quidem barbarum incendio flagrante non dominum, 

nedum servume somno suscitaturum fuisse. 

208. Non modo puerum sed etiam sobrinum meum suscitavit, 

quum id patruus mens jocosus narraret. 

209. Non cujusvis esset, dummodo nondum adesset medicus, 

vulneratum curare. 

210. Nonne te, dum templum recenter flagrabat, in vicini 

domicilium portabant ? 

211. Villicus colono narrabat ut barbaro templum oppugnante 

alter alterum vulnerarent. 

212. Desperavit aedituus, quum tamen vestibulo domicilii 

flagrante nullum in periculum vocaretui-. 

213. Hoc solum sperant futurum esse ut simulacrum servetur. 

214. Num eum sanum putes qui solus pardum iratum oppugnare 

conetur I" 

215. Tectum flagrat ; amicum tuum, si vis servare, ne exspecta 

dum alter e somno suscitet. 

216. Adestne servus, qui primus aedituum templo flagrante e 

somno suscitavit ? 

217. Tribunus ille patruo meo vicinus futurus est dum fid 

pugnandum avocetur. 

218. Flagrante stabulo dominus properabat ut equum ex 

incendio servaret. 

219. Templo flagrante unus et alter circum oppidum properavit 

auxiliuni advocatum. 

220. Tribunus, alterum bumerum vulneratus, tamen me Catulol 

auxiliante ad medicum portabat. 



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THE MASTERY SERIES. 



Text XII. 

1 \ 2 3 54477 

221. The assassin, however, altho' yesterday in private to a 

8 ^ 7 10 10 6 10 9 9 13 12 11 

certain comrade he did not hide the truth, will to-day openly 

13 14 14 16 15 

deny that he is guilty. 

222. The attendant has denied in the presence of the people that 

thou didst help the wounded neighbour. 

223. The servant, if he has related to anyone where the boy is, 

will deserve to be scourged. 

224. The villager said yesterday that the temple would not have 

blazed had not the sacristan been away. 

225. That faithless attendant pretended that he was what he 

was not and concealed who he was. 

226. Does he hide from anyone that he has told this tribune 

openly that which the culprit related secretly ? 

227. They were asking me, who had secretly related to thy uncle 

that thou hadst flogged a certain rustic. 

228. The culprit again and again besought that man to deny 
that he was present while a certain neighbour's hall was blazing. 

229. He is not a faithful friend, is he, who says that he will not 

fight with an assassin by night ? 

230. Meanwhile an excellent and most faithful slave has healed 
the master's friend, who was wounded whilst fighting. 

231. The master rode by night into the town ; in which interval 

the culprit attacked his son. 

232. Would there not have been a pact between thee and the 

tribune if he had now been at Eome ? 

233. However much he hides this from the tribune, it is certain 

that the tyrant has to-day been wounded. 

234. The doctor commissions the attendant to cause his wounded 

comrade to be carried to-day to Corinth. 

235. If the slave had yesterday been absent anywhere, how 

could he have woke the sacristan from sleep ? 

236. The sacristan, since the barbarian is not as yet attacking 

the temple, gives the boy an interval for sleep. 

237. Who was at Corinth when the Eoman attacked ? Was that 

most faithful commander away from Corinth ? 

238. Philip does not blame Curtius, does he, because he was so 

angry that he flogged the ruffian ? 

239. The tribune does not doubt that he himself will triumph 
over the barbarian, over whom Philip has lately triumphed. 

240. So mad was the bull that, had not the bailiff been there 

armed with a sword, he would have killed the boy. 



LATIN" MANUAL. 



25 



Text XII. 

1 2 3 4 5 6J_ 

\221. Sicarms autem, quamquam clam heri non socio 

\ 3 9 10 _ 11 ^ _ ^ '^^^ ^ J^ 

cuidam verum dissimulavit, palam hodie negabit se reum 

16 

esse. 

222. Famulus coram populo negavit te vicino vulnerato adfuisse. 

223. Servus, si cui narraverit ubi sit puer, flagellandus erit. 

224. Paganus heri negavit templum flagraturum fuisse nisi 

abfuisset aedituus. 

225. Infidus ille famulus simulavit se esse qui non esset, dissim- 

ulavitque quis esset. 

226. Numcui dissimulat se buic tribuno palam id nuntiavisse 

quod reus clam narravit ? 

227. Me rogabant quis clam patruo tuo narravisset te paganum 

quemdam flagellasse. 

228. Ecus ilium etiam atque etiam oravit ut negaret se atrio 

cujusdam vicini flagrante adesse. 

229. Num fidus amicus is est qui negat se cum sicario noctu 

pugnaturum esse ? 

230. Servus autem optimus fidissimusque amicum domini inter 

pugnandum vulneratum sanavit. 

231. Dominus in oppidum noctu equitavit ; quo intervallo reus 

filium ejus oppugnavit. 

232. Nonne pactum inter te et tribunum interfuisset si jam 

Eomae adfuisset ? 

233. Quamvis hoc tribuno dissimulet, certum est tyrannum 

hodie vulneratum esse. 

234. Medicus famulo mandat ut vulneratum ejus socium 

Corinthum hodie portandum curet. 

235. Si servus heri ubivis abfuisset, qui aedituum e somno 

suscitavisset ? 

236. Aedituus, barbaro templum nondum oppugnante, puero 

intervallum dat somno. 

237. Quis Corinthi aderat Romano oppugnante? Num praefectus 

ille fidissimus Corintho aberat ? 

238. Num Philippus Curtium culpat quod adeo iratus fuerit 

ut sicarium flagellaverit ? 

239. Non dubitat tribunus quin ipse de barbaro triumphaturus 

sit, de quo Philippus nuper triumphavit. 

240. Adeo rabidus erat taurus ut, nisi villicus adfuisset gladio 

armatus, puerum necaturus fuerit. 



26 THE MASTERY SERIES. 

Text XIII. 

1 2345 878 6 65 

241. Before thou and lie came, the timid disciple kept crying out 

9 9 14 14 14 10 11 12 11 13 13 13 

that ye were being beaten by a certain madman with a stick. 

242. To whom did the slave affirm that, unless he had fought, 

he would have been slain by the assassin ? 

243. However much thou and he affirm it, yet the attendant 

will deny that thou wast vigilant in the haU. 

244. Didst thou not beat the servant with a big stick when he 

attacked thee by night with a sword ? 

245. Why hast thou alternately denied and affirmed that thou 

hadst been beaten by a farmer with a stick ? 

246. Before that however, one messenger denied to the other 
that he would have been unfaithful unless he had been beaten. 

247. There is a very great difference between me and thee, Oh 

barbarian ; for thou hast falsely denied thy trust. 

248. Did ye not affirm to the master that you were being beaten 

with a stick by a certain neighbour's comrade ? 

249. Before the tribune arrived, I had no doubt that if the 
barbarian had attacked, the town would have been burnt. 

250. So ifnfaithful was the slave that, had not the bailiff also 

been blameworthy, he ought to have been flogged. 

251. He was in doubt whether the barbarian would attack; it 

is not however now doubtful that he will attack. 

252. Whoever has been wounded by a javelin let him be carried 

to my doctor to be healed. 

253. Would that the ruffian had been handed over to the f reed- 

man to be scourged in front of the vestibule ; 

254. So long as the hall shall blaze, that wounded man shall 

not be carried by anyone into the bedroom. 

255. Did ye relate to the pupil that a certain rustic would beat 

the boy with a stick till the master arrived. 

256. In that sacred temple the sacristan, whom ye thought 

prosperous, has thrown himself on to a sword. 

257. Whatever that credulous messenger has related, although 

thou hast affirmed it to be true, is false. 

258. Did my cousin and thou cry out that the roof was on fire, 
and did ye announce that ye had wounded the incendiary ? 

259. To whom has the insane steward affirmed that there is no 

difference between a faithful and a faithless man ? 

260. Didst thou not declare to my comrade, that thou wouldst 
not blame the rustic, even though he should relate the truth ? 



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Text XIII. 



1234 5 6_ 7 8 

241. Antequam tu et ille adfiiistis, clamabat timidus discipulus 

9 10 11 12 13 14 

vos ab insano quodam baciilo verberari 

242. Cuinam afifirmavit servus futurum fuisse, nisi pugnavisset, 

ut a sicario necaretur ? 

243. Quamvis tu et ille affiirmetis, tamen negabit famulus te 

in atria vigilare. 

244. Nonne servum, quum te noctu gladio oppugnaret, magno 

baculo verberavisti ? 

245. Quid alternis negavisti et affirmavisti te a colono baculo 

verberatum esse ? 

246. Antea tamen nuntius alter alteri negavit so infiduni 

futurum fuisse si non verberatus esset. 

247. Inter me, barbare, et te plurimum interest ; tu enim 

mandatum tuum falso negasti. 

248. Nonne vos domino affirmavistis vos a vicini cujusdam 

socio baculo verberari ? 

249. Antequam tribunus adfuit, non dubitavi quin, si barbarus 

oppugnavissct, ojipidum crcmandum fuerit. 

250. Ita infidus erat servus ut, nisi villicus quoque culpandus 

fuisset flagellandus, fuerit. 

251. Dubitabat quidcm oppugnaturusne esset barbarus ; nunc 

tamen non est dubium quin oppugnaturas sit. 

252. Quicunque jaculo vulneratus est, ad meum medicum 

portetur sanandus. 

263. O si sicarius liberto ante vestibulum flagellandus mandatus 

esset ! 

254. Quoad atrium flagrabit, vulneratus ille non a quoquam in 

cubiculum portabitur. 

255. Discipulone narravistis rusticum quemdam, quoad dominus 

adesset, puerum baculo verberaturum esse ? 

256. In sacro illo templo aedituus, quern prosperum putavistis, 

se in gladium jactavit. 

257. Quidquid nuntius ille credulus narravit, etsi verum esse 

affirmasti, falsum est. 

258. Tune et sobrinus mens clamavistis tectum flagrare ; 

nuntiavistisque vos incendiarium vulneravisse ? 

259. Cuiuam insanus villicus affirmavit non inter fidum et 

inlidum interesse ? 

260. Nonne socio meo negasti te rusticum, etiamsi verum 
narret, culpaturum esse. 



28 THE MASTERY SERIES. 



Text XIV. 

11 13 2 3 457776 

261. In presence of the same tribune I too will cry out with 

6 8 8 12 12 12 9 9 11 10 

tears that I have been robbed of purse and cloak. 

262. I indeed, when robbed of my purse, asked the same boy 
that you did, whether the countryman had attacked him also. 

263. Will not every friend of this slave, if he shall be beaten, 

try to attack the master at dawn ? 

264. At dawn I shall have commissioned his bailiff to throw 

each slave's sword and javelin into the river. 

265. That same rustic, at the order of the farmer, deprived the 

faithless villager of cloak and purse. 

266. I think that the countryman is come here to relate this 

to me before the farmer does so. 

267. Ye however affirmed that that sword, of which the freed - 

man robbed the barbarian, was one cubit long. 

268. If however I affirm that I have been robbed of my purse 

by the culprit, he will deny it weeping. 

269. However the same slave has no purse for anyone to rob 

him of. 

270. That villager, as they affirm, who yesterday committed this 

cloak to me, also tried to save thee. 

271. That man would relate anything false; I will, however, 

certainly maintain that he is uttering a falsehood. 

272. I will narrate everything to the bailiff; how the temple 
has blazed, and how the sacristan has been most faithful. 

273. You may entrust any javelin you like to the tribune, but 

when the boy asks, conceal every javelin in the hall. 

274. The master was indeed away ; but if he were here, he would 

have handed over the servant to be flogged. 

275. In fact, unless ye had been present, they would have 
beaten the attendant and the attendant's boy with that stick. 

276. Whateverthou hast. Oh friend, will it not be for me, who 

have saved thee out of great danger ? 

277. Will there be aught of truth that that messenger will 

not hide, when he relates this to the master ? 

278. The servant openly congratulates himself because he is 

subject to a Eoman and not to a Greek. 

279. When the barbarian attacked the temple, the sacristan 
was concealing himself under the roof of the nearest domicile. 

280. Ye would not have carried any wounded man whatever 

into my bedroom ; but this man is my friend. 



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Text XIV. 

1_2 345 C '_S 

261. Coram eodem tribuno ego quoque lacrymans clamabo me 

^9 10 U ^12 12 

loculo pallioque spoliatum esse. 

262. Ego quidem loculo spoliatus eundum puerum rogavi quern 

tu, num euni quoque rusticus oppugnavisset. 

263. Nonne hujus servi, si verberabitur, amicus quisque domi- 

num diluculo oppugnare conabitur ? 

264. Diluculo villico ejus mandavero ut servi cujusque gladium 
jaculumque in fluvium jactet. 

265. Idem ille rusticus, colono mandante, pallio loculoque 
infidum pagamim privavit. 

266. Puto quidem hie adesse rusticum qui hoc mihi prius- 

quam colonus narret. 

267. Vos autem affirmavistis gladium ilium, quo barbarum 

libertus spoliavit, unum cubitum longum esse. 

268. Reus autem, si affirmabo me ab eo loculo spoliatum esse, 

ncgabit lacrymans. 

269. Ceterum eidem servo nuUus loculus est quo quisquam 

eum spoliet. 

270. Paganus ille, ut affirmant, qui mihi heri hoc pallium man- 

davit, idem te servare conatus est. 

271. Quidvis falso iste narret; certe tamen affirmabo ego eum 

falsum nuntiare. 

272. Villico unumquidque narrabo, ut templum flagra verit, et 

ut aedituus fidissimus fuerit. 

273. Quodvis jaculum tribuno mandes ; puero autem rogante, 

unumquodque jaculum in atrio cela. 

274. Aberat quidem dominus ; qui si adesset, servum flagellan- 

dum mandavisset. 

275. Quod nisi adfuissetis, famulum puerumque famuli baculo 

isto verberavissent. 

276. Quidquid tibi erit, amice, nonne mihi erit, qui te magno 

e periculo servavi. 

277. Numquid veri erit quin ille nuntius dissimulaturus sit 

quum hoc domino narret. 

278. Servus palam sibi gratulatur quod Romano et non Graeco 

subjectus est. 

279. Barbaro templum oppugnante, aedituus se sub proximi 

domicilii tecto celabat. 

280. Non quemvis vulneratum in cubiculum meum portavissetis ; 

verum hie mihi amicus est. 



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Text XV. 

Ill 2 388 8 4 

281. Dost thou ask, prithee-, whether I have esteemed the 

4 5 6 6 7 

armourbearer or the archer more ? 

282. Is it not the concern of every slave to value a kindly- 

master at a high price ? 

283. You would value at very little a servant who would not 
fight with an enemy of his master, if he were wounded. 

284. The doctor, meanwhile, asks not the archer but the armour- 
bearer whether he values my cousin or uncle the higher ? 

285. Was it the bailiff that ye were asking whether he valued 

the freedman higher than the farmer did ? 

286. Is there more difference between me and thee, or between 

thee and thy uncle ? 

287. The farmer the bailiff and the armourbearer are asking 
me what thou, my faithful archer, art waiting for here. 

288. Thy comrade, oh Plautus, was asking the messenger what 

thou hast told my uncle's friend. 

289. That neighbour is conscious of right who values an un- 

fortunate friend at the highest possible rate. 

290. Did ye not have very little sleep because you thought that 

the barbarian was going to attack you ? 

291. I asked the doctor's attendant whether he would carry 

thee to Philip's, when the temple was blazing. 

292. Wretched me! before thou camest, I had given up that boy 

to the servant to be beaten with a stick. 

293. Was it not before thee that the friend asked the doctor 

what I was waiting for here ? 

294. The archer however has lately asked me whether I value 

the doctor's friend at a higher rate than my cousin. 

295. Didst thou ask the armourbearer whether I had entrusted 

a purse to his comrade the archer or not ? 

296. I pray you, was not the bailiff asking you whether my 

uncle had had a cloak or not ? 

297. Prithee, which slave of the two was relating to the master 

that I valued the farmer above the bailiff ? 

298. With which archer of the two, oh armourbearer, wast thou 
fighting, whilst the vestibule of the temple was blazing ? 

299. I will wake either slave you please out of sleep ; if you like 

I will wake even both. 

300. Although each boy were to ask thee, arm neither, oh 

friend, with a javelin. 



LATIN MANUAL. 31 



Text XV. 

1 2 3 ^4 ^.^.^^ '_ 

281. Eogasne, quaeso, utrum armigerum an sagittarium pluris 

8 

aestimaverim ? 

282. Nonne cujusvis servi interest benignum dominum inagiii 

aestiinare ? 

283. Minimi aestimares servum qui non domini, si vulneraretur, 

cum inimico pugnaturus esset. 

284. Medicus autem non sagittarium sed armigerum rogat 

utrum sobrinum meum an patruum pluris aestimet. 

285. Villicumne rogabatis utrum libertum pluris aestimaret 

quam colonus ? 

286. Utrum plus inter me et te interest an inter te et patruum 

tuum? 

287. Colonus villicusque et armiger mo rogant quid tu, mi fidi 

sagittarie, bic exspectes. 

288. Socius tuus, o Plauto, nuntium rogabat quid tu amico 

patrui mei narraveris. 

289. Vicinus Hie recti conscius est qui infortunatum quam 

amicmn pluiimi acstimat. 

290. Nonne minimi somni eratis qui putaretis barbarum vos 

oppugnaturum esse ? 

291. Famulum medici rogavi num te quum templum flagraret 

ad Pbilippi portaturus esset. 

292. Me miserum ! antequam adfuisti, pucrum ilium servo 

mandaveram baculo verberandum. 

293. Nonne coram te amicus medicum rogavit quid hie ex- 

spectarem ? 

294. Sagittarius autem me nuper rogavit utrum amicum medici 

pluris sobrino meo aestimem. 

295. Armigerumne rogavisti utrum socio ejus sagittario loculum 

mandavissem an non ? 

296. Nonne villicus te, quaeso, rogabat utrum patruo meo 

pallium fuisset necne ? 

297. Titer scrvus, quaeso, domino narrabat me colonum pluris 

quam villicum aestimare ? 

298. Cum utro sagittario, o armiger, pugnabas dum vestibulum 

tenipli flagrabat. 

299. Utrumvis servum e somno suscitabo ; si vis, etiam utrumque. 

300. Etiamsi uterque puer te oret, neutrum, o amice, jaculo 

arma. 



32 THE MASTERY SERIES. 



Text XVI. 

32 145 5 8 766 

301. For he indeed, as they related, was desirous of fighting 

9 9 10 12 11 U 

and yet more fitted for ease. 

302. Why did they blame my armour-bearer's friend? He, you 

know, was desirous of attacking the town. 

303. Thy armour-bearer, Oh tribune, although fond of ease, yet 

thought it very good to be slain for thee. 

304. Thou, I grant, wast very desirous of fighting with the 

German, but I was more so. 

305. Is not that tribune, whom they have announced to be 
present, more fitted for attacking the town than the prefect ? 

306. The roof is ablaze ; and yet thinkest thou that the wounded 

master ought not to be carried out of his bedroom ? 

307. He is a true Eoman, as they have rightly affirmed, who 

will fight with the panther without anyone assisting. 

308. Before they came up, the tribune called off his friend who 

was going to fight with the German. 

309. Do you wish me to ask the archer whether he thinks himself 

fitted for fighting or for ease ? Certainly. 

310. Value at a very little, a tribune who is desirous of ease 

when the fight is not yet over. 

311. I have armed myself with sword and javelin, since I am 

desirous of fighting with that barbarian. 

312. Marcus, having had the captive slain, rode into the town 

without anyone saluting him. 

313. Will that commander be openly honoured, after having 
refused to fight with the barbarian through desire of ease ? 

314. It having been hitherto uncertain what would happen, the 

liberation of the town has very greatly pleased me. 

315. The Eoman, to whom attacking with a sword meant 
slaying, never threw a javelin without wounding a Parthian. 

316. Philip indeed, who had been cheered before fighting, rode 

through the town without anyone saluting him. 

317. Curtius had felt, before you were announced to be here, 
that it would be far the best to ride against the barbarian. 

318. Would that the tribune may arrive ere yet it has been 
fought out ; nay indeed, would that he were not now absent. 

319. The tyrant being slain. Oh slaves, do not ye care to be 

free ! For he is said to have been inhuman to you. 

320. Would that he had resolved to slay the panther ; for 
there is a. very great difference between wounding and slaying. 



LATIN MANUAL. 



Text XVI. 



1234 5 6 7^89 

301. Quippe liic enim, iit narravenint, pugnandi ciipidus erat at 

10 U 12 

magis otio aptiis. 

302. Quid amicum armigeri mei culpavenint ? Is enim oppidi 

oppugnandi cupidus erat. 

303. Armiger tuus, O tribune, quamvis otii studiosus tamen pro 

te necari optimum putavit. 

304. Tu quidem cum Germano pugnandi magnopere cupidus 

eras, magis autem ego. 

305. Nonne tribunus ille, quem nuntiaverunt adesse, oppido 

oppugnando magis aptus est quam prsefectus ? 

306. Tectum flagrat ; atqui putas dominum vulneratum non e 

cubiculo suo portandum esse? 

307. Est verus Eomanus, ut recte affirmaverunt, cumpardo nullo 

auxiliante pugnatuinis. 

308. Antequam adfuerunt, tribunus amicum suum cum Germano 

pugnaturum avocavit. 

309. Visne sagittarium interrogem utrum se j^ugnando aptum 

putet an otio ? Sane. 

310. Tribunum, qui nondum depugnato otii cupidus est, minimi 

aestima. 

311. Me gladio atque jaculo armavi, quippe qui cum barbaro 

illo pugnandi cupidus sim. 

312. Marcus, quum captivum necandum curavisset, nullo salu- 

tante in oi)pidum equitavit. 

313. Praefectusne iste, qui otii cupidus non cum barbaro meo 

pugnaverit, palam honorabitur ? 

314. Adhuc incerto quid futurum sit, libcratum oppidum mo 

plurimum delectavit. 

315. Romanus, cui gladio oppugnare erat necare, nunquam 

jaculum jactavit quin Parthum vulnerarct. 

316. Philippus quidem, cui ante pugandum acclamatum erat, 

per oppidum ita equitavit ut a nullo salutaretur. 

317. Fuerat animus Curtio, antequam tu adcsso nuntiatus cs, 

optimum futurum esse in barbarum equitare. 

318. Utinam adsit tribunus, nondum depugnato ; immo vero, 

utinam ne jam abesset. 

319. Nonne vos, o servi, tyranno jam necato, liberi esse curatis ? 

Narratur enim vobis inhumanus fuisse. 

320. Utinam ei fuisset in animo pardum necare ; permultum 

enim interest inter vulnerandum et nccandum. 
D 



34 THE MASTERY SERIES. 



Text XVII. 



321. But lie on the contrary, although we used to judge him 

88 7 766 10 12 12 12 U 

to be very fond of ease, often went on service abroad. 

322. I was ignorant indeed of the burning of the temple ; for I 

was not present there. 

323. I on the contrary, if I had been an idler, would have 

hastened amidst this danger to serve as a soldier. 

324. "We had already awoke out of sleep all the most faithful, 

that we might help the wounded tribune. 

325. Yes, indeed, although they have never yet fought, yet if 

you wish they will go on service. 

326. My uncle, however little he be fond of war, yet would 

serve, if Curtius were to ask him very often. 

327. "Would not the one man beat the other, if he were to tell 

the master that he was very fond of ease. 

328. Our neighbour cares not indeed for war; and yet, if we 

were to ask him, he would of course serve. 

329. The robbing of the master and the beating of the servant 

shew indeed to me that that bailiff is mad. 

330. We related how the archer, who had fought with the bar- 
barian, rode into the town not without being saluted. 

331 That tribune, whom we have just now awakened out of 
sleep, hides the truth concerning the liberation of the captive. 

332. They have in fact related, what ye had before related, that 

that freedman is most faithful at home and abroad. 

333. "When he carries thee wounded into the hall, why dost thou 

always ask whether the bedroom is blazing ? 

334. The master and I were congratulating the faithful armour- 

bearer because he Jiad not been wounded. 

335. I must congratulate thee, because, though desirous of 

hastening home, thou hast yet served as a soldier. 

336. Prithee, is there anything that thou and I think right, 

which that unjust master will not blame ? 

331. And none would deny, if the tribune and thou were thus 

to judge, that that archer is fit for fighting. 

338. "We never supposed that any one amidst so great danger 

would be faithful. 

339. If the people attack the house, we will carry the wounded 

man vdthersoever it is right to take him. 

340. My comrade has not arrived, because he is wounded ; yet 

he is as fond of war as thou thvself . 



LATIN MANUAL. 35 



Text XVII. 

123 i 56 7^ 8^ 

321. Sed ille contra, quanquam eum otii studiosissimiun esse 

9 10 11 12 

judicabamus, saepe belli mllitabat. 

322. Templi quidem cremati ignanis eram ; ibi enim non aderam. 

323. Ego contra, si otii cupidissimus fuissem, hoc in periculo 

properavissem militare. 

324. Fidissimum quemque jam e somno suscitaveramus, ut tri- 

buno vulnerato adessemus. 

325. Enimvero, quamquam nondum pugnavenint, tamen, si tu 

vis, mUitabunt. 

326. Patnius mens, quamvis paullum belli studiosus sit, tamen 

Curtio saepissime orante militet. 

327. Nonne hie ilium verberet si domino narret eum otii 

studiossimimi esse? 

328. Yicinus noster non bellum quidem amat ; vcnimtamen, si 

rogemus, sane militet. 

329. Spoliatus dominus et vcrberatus servus mihi quidem 

monstrant villicum ilium insannm esse. 

330. Narravimus ut Sagittarius, qui cum barbaro pugnavisset, in 

oppidum cquitaret non insalutatus. 

331. Tribunus ille, quern nuper e somno suscitavimus, de captivo 

liberando veruiu dissimulat. 

332. Nuntiavenint quidem, quod vos antea narraveratis, liber- 

tum istum domi bellique fidissimum esse. 

333. Quum te vulneratum in atrium portat, cur semper rogas 

num cubiculum ilagret ? 

334. Ego et dominus fido armigero gratulabamur quod non 

vulneratus erat. 

335. Tibi a me gratulandum est quod, domum properandi cupidus, 

tamen militavisti. 

336. Estne quidquam, quaeso, quod ego et tu rectum putemus, 

quin dominus ille in Justus culpaturus sit? 

337. Nee quisquam ncget, si tu et tribunus ita judicetis, sagit- 

tarium ilium pugnando aptum esse. 

338. Nunquam putavimus quemquam tam magno in periculo 

fidum futurum esse. 

339. Si populus domilicium oppugnabit, quoquo rectum erit, 

vulneratum portabimus. 

340 Socius mens non adest vulneratus ; ita tamen belli studiosus 
est ac tu ipse. 

d2 



36 THE MASTERY SEEIES. 

Texts XVIII.-XIX. 

11 1 5 23344 4 6 

341. While the crowd rushed into the hall of the palace, the 

6 10 8 7 _ 9 ^ 11 14 13 12 12 . 

queen commanded thy handmaid, Portia, to make fast the door. 

342. When the great crowd rushed into the palace, the queen 
asked the handmaid why they were not securing the gate. 

343. Thy mistress, O handmaid, related to the frightened 
queen that that great crowd had rushed into the palace. 

344. The handmaid shews herself timid for one moment only, 

since the crowd is rushing into Portia's hall. 

345. With the hall blazing, with the palace attacked by a mob, 

the queen has been saved by a certain handmaid. 

346. My cousin's faithful handmaid commissioned the bailiff 

and his wife not to relate this to the queen. 

347. That cruel mistress ordered the farmer to beat with a stick 
at the first hour of dawn both the bailiff and his wife. 

348. In this hall near the palace the seditious mob did not slay 

the queen, because she feigned madness. 

349. It is not true, is it, that the queen adorned with a crown 

of roses is dedicating a temple to Saturn ? 

350. That tribune, emulous of glory, armed with a sword for 

the fight, shews himself most trustworthy. 

41 4 23 35126 7 8 

351. I also conjured her seven times to hide my beautiful little 

8 6 6 9 11 10 

daughter for me in some cottage. 

352. Whilst the crowd was attacking the palace, the tribune 
entrusted the queen's daughter to some handmaid to hide. 

353. Some handmaid's daughter seven times told the queen that 

a certain mad woman would rush into the hall. 

354. The freedman ordered the bailiff and his wife to secure the 
handmaid's cottage, in which the queen had been hidden. 

355. The matron was giving orders to that faithful handmaid, 

to hide her daughter in a certain hut. 

356. Whose so beautiful little daughter is thy cousin entrusting 

to the handmaid to hide ? 

357. To which neighbour had that handmaid entrusted this 

little daughter at the command of the queen ? 

S58. If any woman shall have entrusted the queen's little 

daughter to a faithless neighbour, she will be greatly blamed. 

359. By which of the two female neighbours was my female 

cousin wounded ? Not by both, was she ? 

360. The other at the seventh hour declared to me, that the 

queen had hidden herself in this handmaid's hut. 



LATIN MANUAL. 37 

Texts XVIII.-XIX. 

1234 5 67 8 

341. Turba m aulam. regiae incursante regina ancillae tiiae, 

9 10 10 12 13 U 

Portia, imperavit ut janiiain tutam praestaret. 

342. Turba magna in regiam incursante, regina ancillam rogavit 

cur non januam tutum praestarent. 

343. Domina tua, O ancilla, perterritae reginae narravit magnani 

illam turbam in regiam incursavisse. 

344. Ancilla unum modo momentum se timidam praestat, quum 

turba in aulam Portiae incurset. 

345. Aula flagrante, regia a tui'ba oppugnata, regina ab ancilla 

quadam servata est. 

346. Fida sobrinae meae ancilla villico villicaeque mandavit ne 

hoc reginae narrarcnt. 

347. Barbara ilia domina colono imperavit ut prima diluculi 

hora villicumque villicamque baculo verberaret. 

348. Hac in aula regiae vicina turba seditiosa reginam, insania 

simulata, non necavit. 

349. Num verum est reginam rosea corona omatam templum 

Satumo dedicare? 

350. Tribunus ille, gloriae aemulus, gladio pugnae armatus, se 

fldissimum monstrat. 

12 3 456 7 89 

351. Necnon eam septies obsScravi ut mihi pulchram filiolamln 

10 11 12 

casa aliqua celaret. 

352. Tuiba regiam oppugnante, tribunus reginae filiam ancillae 

alicui mandavit celandam. 

353. Ancillae alicujus filia reginae septies affirmavit insanam 

quamdam in aulaiu incursaturam esse. 

354. Libertus villico villicae, que imp<'ravit ut casam ancUlae, in 

qua regina celata esset, tutam praestarent. 

355. Fidae illi ancillae matrona imperabat, ut in casa quadam 

filiam ejus celaret. 

356. Cujam tam pulchram filiolam sobrina tua ancillae mandat 

celandam 'i 

357. Cuiiiam vicinae ancilla ea, regina imperante, banc filiolam 

mandaverat ? 

358. Si qua infidae ancillae|filiolam reginae mandaverit, magnopere 

culpabitur. 

359. Ab utra vicina vulnerata est sobrina mea? Num ab utraque? 

360. Altera mihi septima hora affirmavit, reginam se in hujus 

ancillae casa celavisse. 



38 THE MASTERY SERIES. 



Text XX. 

1 12433 6 755 7 

361. Would that we had a son endowed with as great courage 

8 9 

as Horatius ! 

362. Would that Horatius had been with the queen and Portia 

and me amidst so great a danger ! 

363. This at all events let us relate to the queen, how Philip 

aided us in so great a danger. 

364. Would that my son had then had as much help as Curtius 

lately had ! 

365. Unless he esteemed me as highly as you do, he would not 
carry me wounded in my shoulder into this bedroom. 

366. What ? Surely the beautiful handmaid, when the master 

questioned her, did not hide some of the truth. 

367. While the crowd was rushing into the palace, a certain 
woman concealed the queen under a neighbouring roof. 

368. How great, O queen, would be thy glory, if thou hadst 

not been terrified by the seditious mob ! 

369. The queen had been absent from Eome more than an hour, 

when the barbarian crowd was hastening to Capua. 

370. How greatly, O Portia, will the queen honour thee at 

Eome, since thou hast concealed her daughter ! 

371. The tribune fights abroad with great courage; yet, when it 

has been fought out, he hastens home. 

372. We must congratulate the doctor, in whatever way he has 

healed the wounded tribune. 

373. Did we not deny that we had resolved to carry thee any- 

where except into our hall ? 

374. Was the temple burnt by night ? It was, but why do you 

ask? 

375. Do you want anything ? Yes. Is your father at home ? 

No. 

376. The foreigner has so large a javelin that we have en- 

trusted it to my armour-bearer to carry. 

377. To us it is worth throwing ourselves into the midst of the 

stream, provided we save thee out of danger. 

378. Thy friend, O Philip, being quite sane in mind, has aU but 

wounded the roistress's neighbour. 

379. The more the master denies that he will give leisure, the 

more desirous is the handmaid of it. 

380. My master, you may rob of his cloak, if you choose ; only 

he must not be beaten, much less wounded. 



LATIN MANUAL. 39 



Text XX. 

1 2 3 45 ^,.«' ^ 

361. Utinam nobis natiis esset tanto praeditus animo quanto 

9 

Horatiiis ! 

362. Utinam mihi reginaeque et Portiae tanto in periculo 

adfuisset Horatius ! 

363. Hoc utique reginae narremus, ut Philippus tanto in periculo 

nobis adfuerit. 

364. Utinam tum filio meo tantum fuisset auxilii quantum nuper 

Curtio! 

365. Nisi me tanti acstimarct quanti tu, non me hoc in cubiculum 

portaret humenim vulncratum. 

366. Quid ? Num pulchra ancilla, quum dominus eam interro- 

gavit, aliquid veri dissimulavit ? 

367. Dum turba in regiam incursabat, femina quaedam sub 

vicino tecto reginam celavit. 

368. Quanta tibi, O regina, esset gloria, quae non a turba 

seditiosa teirita esses ! 

369. Plus hora Roma abfucrat regina, quum barbara turba 

Capuam properabat. 

370. Quantum te, Portia, Eomao bonorabit regina, cujus filiam 

celaveris ! 

371. Tribunus militiae magno animo pugnat; domum tamen 

depugnato properat. 

372. Medico a nobis gratulandum est, quoquo niodo vulneratum 

tribunimi sana\at. 

373. Nonne negavimus nobis esse in animo te quoquam portare 

nisi in atrium nostrum ? 

374. Templum ne noctu crematum est ? Crematum est, sed 

cur rogatis ? 

375. Numquid vis ? Etiam. Estne patruus tuus domi ? 

Non est. 

376. Tantum est barbaro jaculum quod armigero meo portandum 

mandaverimus. 

377. Nobis tanti est nos in medivmi fluvium jactare, dummodo 

vos e periculo sci-vemus. 

378. Amicus tuus, Philippe, ab animp sanissimus, dominae 

vicinum tantum non vulneravit. 

379. Quanto plus negat dominus se otium daturum esse, tanto 

magis cupida est ancilla. 

380. Dominum mcum vel pallio spolies; tantum non ver- 

berandus est, nedum vulnerandus. 



40 THE MASTERY SERIES. 

Texts XXI.-XXII. 

23544 61 1 6 

381. This besides has very much disturbed the besieged, that 

8 8 14 14 14 7 7 9 9 10 

the barbarians have won over to themselves a thousand rustics 

11 12 12 13 

with the farmers' slaves. 

382. This besides very much disturbs my neighbours that the 

tribune has not given aid to the besieged townsmen. 

383. They relate at Eome for certain how those rustics have 
slain a thousand slaves of the neighbours with many bailiffs. 

384. This however, O friends, was so being related to the tri- 
bunes by the messengers that it did not very much disturb them. 

385. The neighbours' attack on the masters disturbs us. 

386. And this disturbed manyi men besides the tribune, just as 

if enemies themselves had related it. 

387. Inasmuch as the farmers have won over to themselves the 
slaves of the Eomans, who is going to save the masters ? 

388. Besides attacking, the freedmen have wounded the masters; 
accordingly hand them over to the bailiffs to be beaten. 

389. faithless slaves, for winning over to yourselves those 

barbarians, when they attacked the town I 

390. The tribune is here with rustics and farmers to attack the 
town at the sixth hour, before the townsmen are prejiared. 

12 55 7 4663 8 

391. So willingly each man offered himself to face dangers that 

9 10 12 11 _ 17_ 16 16 13 15 15 

even from the roofs javelins were thrown on the auxiliaries. 

392. They were being attacked on all sides by the barbarians, 
some of whom were throwing javelins down from the temples. 

393. The Eomans were slaying the freedmen, by whom javelins 

had been thrown down from the roofs of the halls. 

394. The roofs of the bedrooms so blazed that the neighbours 
were very much disturbed when no one came with help. 

395. Not only private houses but even temples everywhere blazed, 

when the barbarians had rushed into the town. 

396. "We will offer ourselves willingly to face dangers, lest the 

barbarians attack the Gallic auxiliaries. 

397. O disastrous fight, O terrible javelins, which have mangled 

the Eomans who came to me with help ! 

398. But when the other houses were burnt, thenceforward they 

opposed the barbarians on the roofs of the temples. 

399. The prefect asks if these slaves are fitted for dangers or not. 

400. It had already been announced to the barbarians that the 
besieged in union with the auxiliaries would attack them. 



LAllN MA^^UAL. 41 

Texts XXI.-XXII. 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 

381. Circumsessos hoc praeterea permultum turbavit quod sibi 

8 9 10 11 ^ _ 12 13 14 

barbari mille rtisticos cum colonorum servis conciliaverunt. 



382. Hoc xjraeterea vicinos meos permultum turbat quod 

tribunus circumsessis oppidanis non adfuit. 

383. Romae certo narrant ut rustic! illi mille vicinonim servos 

cum multis villicis necaverint. 

384. Hoc tamen, O amici, ita tribunis a nuntiis narrabatur ut 

non eos permultum turbaret. 

38d. No.> turbat, quod vicini dominos opijugnaverunt. 

386. Quod multos X3ractor tiibunum turbavit, perinde ut si 
inimici ipsi narravissent. 

387- Si quidem coloni servos Eomanorum sibi conciliaverunt, 
quis dominus servaturus est ? 

388. Praeter oppugnandum liberti dominos vulncraverunt. 

389. O infidi scrvi, qui vobis barbaros illos conciliaretis quum 

oppidum ojipugnarent. 

390. Tribunus cum rusticis colonisque adest ut sexta hora 

oppidum opjjugnet aiitoquam oppidani parati sint. 

12 345 G 7S9 

391. Tam libenter periculis se quisquS obviam dabat lit etiam 

10 11 13 lli _ 16 17 

de tcctis in auxilia jactarentiir jaciila. 

392. TJbique a barbaris oppugnabantur ; quorum nonnulli jacula 

de tomplis jactabant. 

393. Romani libertos necabant a quibus jacula de tectis atriorum 

jactata erant. 

394. Ita flagrabant cubiculorum tecta ut vicini permultum 

tuibarentur quum nemo cum auxilio adosset. 

395. Non modo privata tecta sed etiam templa undique flagra- 

verunt, quum barbari in oppidum incursavissent. 

396. Libenter periculis nos obviam dabimus, ne Gallica auxilia 

barbaii oppugnent. 

397. miseram pugnam, O boirida jacula, quae Romanes 

laceravistis qui milii adfuerunt cum auxilio I 

398. Ceteris autem domiciliis crcmatis, exinde in templonim 

tectis se dabaiit barbaris obviam. 

399. Rogat praefectus utrum hi servi periculis apti sint necne. 

400. Barbaris jam nunt latum erat fore ut circumcessi cum 

auxiliis eos oiipugiiarcnt. 



42 THE MASTERY SERIES. 

Texts XXII.-XXIII. 

1233 2 2 i 9 4 

401. Where have the barbarians been quartered ? There are not 

77 855556 6 10U11U4 4 

as many men on this side of the river as on the other, are there ? 

402. We, being masters, have ordered that none of the slaves 

nor even of the handmaids should be flogged. 

403. As I have before related, the barbarians will be glad to slay 

Eoman men and Eoman women, if any be captured. 

404. The Eomans stand in the midst of the halls in arms that 
they may each offer themselves to face the barbarians. 

405. Wherever the tribune is, whether on this side or on the 

other side of the river, he conciliates the rustics. 

406. But what dangers will disturb so many Eomans, if only 

they be heroes ? 

407. My slave and thy handmaid were putting themselves on 

thy behalf in the path of the rustic. 

408. On this side of the river as many women as men were arming 
themselves with swords, and were facing the barbarians. 

409. Both master and slave rode into the town without being 

saluted by anybody. 

410. When I came up many were attacking, wounding, slaying. 

1 4 4552 333 56 

411. Yesterday the captives were relating to the matrons how in 

7 7 8 9 9 13 12 12 11 

their own country the mistresses liberated the daughters of 

11 10 _ 10 11 

the most faithful slaves. 

412. Why was that being related yesterday to the matrons by the 
captives ? Was it to prevent anyone flogging them to-day ? 

413. Those same captives are here, whom yesterday the tribune 

preserved out of the besieged town. 

414. O faithless slaves, for having related to the foreigners 

whither the matrons have been called away ! 

415. But this the captive women were not relating to the 
mistresses, how in their country the matrons beat slaves. 

416. One of the captive women was relating to one of my slaves 
that the barbarians had liberated the matrons' associates. 

417. The neighbour's daughters relate how the Eoman mistresses' 
freedmen are hastening to a spot where they may help us. 

418. Some women tell us that the captives have been liberated, 
which, however, the messengers yesterday denied to you. 

419. For they do not relate this in a probable way who affirm 
that barbarians have liberated captive men and women. 

420. The mistresses were handing over the slaves to the bailiffs 
to prove, before they gave them the care of their little girls. 



LATIN MANUAL. 43 

Texts XXII.-XXIII. 

^1 2 „2_ 3_ 4.5 6 I ^ 

401. XTbinam sunt collocati barbari ? Niim citra fluvium tot viri 

9 10 11 

adsunt quot ultra. 

402. Imperravimus domini ne qui servi neve etiam ancillae 

fla^ellentur. 

403. Ut supra narravi, Eomanos Eomanasque si qui capti erunt 

libenter necabunt barbari. 

404. Stant Romani in mediis atriis armati ut barbaris se quisque 

obviani dent. 

405. Ilbicunque est tribunus, sive citra sive ultra fluvium, 

rusticos conciliat. 

406. Quaenain auteni pericula tot Romanes, si uiodo viri sint, 

turbabunt. 

407. Servus mens et ancilla tua pro te se rustico obviam dabant. 

408. Citra fluvium tot feminae quot viri, se gladiis armabant et 

barbaris obviam dabant. 

409. Et dominus et servus in oppidum equitaverunt neque a 

quoqam salutati sunt. 

410. Quum adessem, multi oppugnare, vulnerare, necare. 

1 2 3 45678 9 

411. Heri narrabant matronis captlvae ut in sua patria dominae 

10 11 12 13 

f idissimanim servarum f ilias liberarent. 



412. Quare illud heri matronis a captivis narrabatur ? Num ne 

quis eas hodie flugellaret. 

413. Eaedem illae captivae adsunt quas heri tribunus e circum- 

sesso oppido conservavit. 

414. infidac servae, quae barbaris naiTavciitis quo matronae 

avocatae sint ! 

415. Sed non hoc dominis narrabant captivae ut in sua patria 

servas verberarent matronae. 

416. E captivis quacdam uni e servis meis narrabat barbaros 

matronarum socias liberavisse. 

417. Vicinarum filiae narrant ut Romanariim dominarum liberti 

illuc propercnt ubi nobis auxilio sint. 

418. Narrant quaedam nobis capti vas liberatas esse ; quae tamen 

nuntii vobis heri negaverunt. 

419. Neque enim probabiliter hoc narrant quae affirmant 

barbaros captivos et captivas liberavisse. 

420. Dominae servas villicis mandabant probandas antequam 

iis curam filiolarum darent. 



44 THE MASTERY SERIES. 

Texts XXIV.-XXV. 

11123 3 66 6 45 5 7 

421. So long as I the master shall be honoured by the slaves, thou 

8 8 9 9 9 10 10 10 11 12 13 13 • 

the mistress wilt be loved; so long as we both shall be 

13 U 15 17 16 18 18 18 

esteemed, ye equally, our boys, shall be loved. 

422. We were once loved by the servants ; if now we are thought 

inhuman, yours is the fault. 

423. So long as thou, the mistress, art loved, I indeed the master, 

may be loved, and my sons may be loved. 

424. We should perhaps be loved, if we had not caused the 

servant to be beaten in proportion to his deserts. 

425. While we are human, men faithful to friends will be loved. 

426. When thou art in school be loved by thy comrades, O my 

son Marcus, if thou wishest to delight me. 

427. If thou wishest to be loved by thy uncle, O boy, thou must 

be praised by that most excellent master. 

428. While I was being wounded by the villager wast thou also 

being beaten by the slave with a stick ? 

429. Had ye not, O servants, announced these things, I should 
have handed you to the prefect that ye might be flogged. 

430. Not even the barbarians should be blamed, if only they 
have fought against the Eomans on behalf of friends. 

1 1 332 2 44775 

431. How much thou lovedst thy country, to whom it was not 

6 14 14 14^ 12 13 8 8 8 10 11 9 U 

arduous to be slain in fight on behalf of even a single Eoman. 

432. At how much am I valued? Thinkest thou that I am 

valued as highly as thou art ? 

433. O Trojans, be slain in the fight, and do not exclaim that it 

is not worth the sacrifice to save your country ! 

434. Let it be to thee worth the risk of throwing thyself into 

midstream, provided thou savest a friend. 

435. Were ye not hoping, my friends, that it would have turned 
out, that to each his own property should be restored ? 

436. To whom is so much money being entrusted by the Greeks? 

Is it not to a Roman ? 

437. The doctor, when you came, had only just carried the boy 

out of the blazing hall. 

438. The more I was affirming these things yesterday, oh 
messengers, the more were ye being accused of mendacity. 

439. My cousins were not so much desirous of fighting for their 

country as for the tribune. 

440. So far was it from its being arduous to fight with the 
barbarian that a sword was given to each of the rustics. 



LATIN MANU^VL. 45 

Texts XXIV.-XXV. 

12 3 45 ^„!^„'^_„^ ^ 

421. Quoad ego dominus a servis honorabor, tu domma amaberis 

10 11 12 _13 U 15 16 17_ IS 

quoad nos ambo aestimabimur vos aeque, pueri nostri, amabimini. 



422. Olim a servis amabamur; si nunc putamur inhumani. vestra 

est culpa. 

423. Quoad tu domina ameris, amer equidem dominus, amentur 

pueri mei. 

424. Forte amaremur, si non servum pro meritis verberandum 

curavissemus. 

425. Quoad nos humani erimus, amabunter ii qui fidi erunt amicis. 

426. Quum in schola sis, a sociis amare, mi fili Marce, si vis me 

delectare. 

427. Si vis, O puer, a patruo tuo amari, a magistro illo optimo 

laudator. 

428. Dum ogo a pagano vulnerabar, tune etiam a servo baculo 

verberabaris ? 

429. Nisi haoc, O servi, nuntiavissetis, vos praefecto mandavissem 

ut flagellaremini. 

430. Ne etiam barbari culpantor, si modo pro amicis cum 

Romanis pugnaverint. 

1 2 345 6 789 

431. Quantum patriam amavisti, cui non ardiium fuit pro uno 

10 11 12 13 U 

quidem Romano in pugna necari ! 

432. Quanti aestimor ? Putasne me tanti aestimari quanti to ? 

433. O Trojani, in pugna necamini, neve clamatc tanti non esse 

patriam servaro. 

434. Tibi tanti esto te in medium fluvium jactare, dummodo 

amicum serves. 

435. Nonnc sperabatis, mei amici, futurum fuisse ut suum cuique 

mandaretur ? 

436. Cuinam tantum pecuniae a Graecis mandatur ? Nonne 

Romano ? 

437. Medicus, quum adfuistis, pucruin tantum quod e flagrante 

atrio portaverat. 

438. Quanto plus haec hcri afifimiabam, tanto plus, O nuntii, 

mendacii accusabamini. 

439. Sobrini mei non tantum pro patria pugnandi cupidi fuenint 

quantum pro tribuno. 

440. Tantum aberat ut arduum esset cum barbaro pugnare ut 

gladius rusticorum cuique daretur. 



46 THE MASTERY SERIES. 

Texts XXVI.-XXVII. 

533312 5 44 (57 

441. At that time it no longer appeared to me to be less worthy 

10 10 10 8 9 9 11 13 14 12 

to do battle for a tribune than for Pompey himself. 

442. Will not Alexander fight ? If not, in my opinion, he will 

deserve much blame. 

443. For who are as unworthy of anyone's preserving them from 

danger as those men near you ? 

444. It was fought out yesterday around the town savagely, and 

not one single man was saved out of the battle. 

445. Are not those slaves, who have rushed into the tyrant's 

palace, deserving of being thrown into the river ? 

446. Certainly the sacristan, who saved us formerly from danger, 

deserves that you should rouse him out of sleep. 

447. But Horatius entrusted to me as much, more or less, as to 

the bailiff's cousins. 

448. Did the maidservant seem to be really wounded, or only to 

pretend that she had been wounded ? 

449. The neighbour's servants he did not indeed beat, but still 

he handed them over to the bailiff to flog. 

450. Seeing this, O slaves, ye would be thought no less deserving 

of being slain than of being flogged. 

12 2 13 4 7 

451. Although the whole of Carthage threatened, Eegulus 

6 5 5 

despised such things. 

452. Even the most trusty slave, if he prove unfaithful, or if he 

has unjustly threatened anyone, must be beaten. 

453. We indeed, O friends, unless we were provoked, would not 

have beaten the barbarians, whom we despise. 

454. Has the messenger ridden into town to ask for aid ? Our 

being saved wholly depends on that. 

455. Already the whole vestibule of the temple had been burnt 

when thou wast awoke from sleep. 

456. Wouldst not thou, my faithful friend, spurn even the master 

of the whole of Eome, if he were to threaten thee ? 

457. Thou art being very much blamed by the master for not 

having yet announced to me what thou didst to him. 

458. Why, O masters, are ye so inhumanly threatening the 

slaves ? For the sake of example ? 

459. Does the farmer think that that danger which thou despisest 

would accrue to him or to thee ? 

460. If the whole town were blazing, thou wast the only one 

whom I would preserve. 



LATIN M.'VNUAL. 4< 

Texts XXVI.-XXVII. 

1 234 556 7 8 

441. Haud amplius jam mihi visum est minus dignum pro 

9 10 11 12 13 14 _ 

tribuno praeliari quam ipso pro Pompeio 

442. Nonne pugnabit Alexander ? Sin minus meo quidem judicio 

magnopere culpando dignus erit. 

443. Qui enim sunt tam indigni quos quisquam e periculo servet 

quam isti ? 

444. Barbare heri circa oppidum depugnatum est ; nee quisquam 

unus e praelio servatus est. 

445. Nonne servi illi, qui in regiam tyranni incursaverunt, digni 

sunt qui in fluvium jactentur? 

446. Certe aedituus qui olim nos e periculo servavit dignus est 

quern e somno suscitetis. 

447. Horatius autem mibi tantum plus minusve mandavit quan- 

tum villici sobrinis. 

448. Verene vulnerari visa est ancilla an tantum simulare se 

vulneratam esse ? 

449. Servos vicini non ille quidem verberavit sed tamen villico 

flagellandos mandavit. 

450. Hoc quidem viso, servi, haud minus necando digni putemini 

quam flagellando. 

S.12 3 4 45 6 6 

451. Etiamsi tola Carthago mmitata est, talia aspematiis est 

Regiilus. 

452. Servus vel fidissimus, si infidus fuerit sive cui minitatus sit, 

verberator. 

453. Nos quidem, amici, non barbaros verberavissemus quos 

aspernati sumus, nisi provocaremur. 

454. Nuntiusne in oppidum equitavit ad auxilium rogandum 

totum in eo est ut servemur. 

455. Jam totum templi vestibulum crematumerat, quum e somno 

suscitatus es. 

456. Nonne tu, mi fide amice, vel totius Romae dominum, si tibi 

minitetur, aspemeris ? 

457. Plurimum a domino culparis qui nondum mihi quae illi 

nuntiaveris 

458. Quid servis domini ita inhumane minitamini ? Exempline 

causa ? 

459. Utrum tibi an sibi putat colonus id periculum futurum esse 

quod aspemaris ? 

460. Toto oppido flagrante, unus tu eras quern ego servaturus 



48 THE MASTERY SERIES. 

Texts XXVIII.-XX1X. 

4 6 7 5 8 10 9 10 10 9 

461. Whoever really restrains himself and is in his own power 

11 3 ^2 

the philosopher congratulates him. 

462. Whatever woman affirms that the matron restrained herself 

yesterday must be denied to have affirmed truth. 

463. Whatever things may be true, those slaves will deny unless 

thou shalt threaten them with the whip. 

464. Whithersoever he may have carried that javelin, whether 
into the hall or the bedroom, by no means tell the madman. 

465. To whomsoever of you he has entrusted the rustics' sons to 
be beaten, if thou art humane thou wilt certainly refuse. 

466. Whoever is in his own power him the philosopher must 
congratulate more than him who is in the power of another. 

467. Whosesover handmaid shall have been entrusted to him, he 

will certainly affirm that she threatened him. 

468. With whatever courage the barbarian were endowed, he 
would not have attacked you if only ye had been armed. 

469. However this may be, though unworthy of a faithful slave, 

he to whom nobody is friendly will not blame it. 

470. In the whole house there was silence, when the slaves carried 

master and freedman, both wounded, into the hall. 

9 122 344 5 6 7 

471. Desire neither too much nor too little money, but enough 

8 

only. 

472. That slave, had we entrusted to her twice as much money, 

would even then desire more. 

473. Ye must hand either this or that to the bailiff; but if this, 

not that. 

474. I was asked for enough money by the messenger, but for 
too much by the neighbour ; to each, however, I said no. 

475. That messenger neither affirmed nor denied what we had 

before concealed. 

476 I indeed am thought to be too fond of war, but he far too 

little. 

477. In the whole school there is disturbance ; in one place the 

master beats a pupil, in another a pupil a servant. 

478. It is both my interest and thine not to blame that servant 

before the master. 

479. What has disturbed the boys so much ? For one is licensing 

another of falsehood. 

480. Give to the bailifF either this or that, which you Kke ; and, 

if you like, both. 



LATLN M-^'UAL. 49 

Texts XXVIII.-XXIX. 

1 23 4 56 78 

4G1. Phflosophus ei gratulatiir, qmcunque sibi vere temperat et 

9 10 10 

penes se est. 

4G2. Quaecunque affirmat mairoTiam sibi heri temperavisse, 
verum affirmasse neganda est. 

463. Quaecunque vera sint, ncgabunt servi isti, nisi iis fiagellum 
minitaberis. 

4G4. Q.uocunque id jaculum portaverit sive in asbium sive in 
cubiculum, nequaquam insano narrale. 

46u. Cuicunque vesliuni rusticorum filios uiandavcrit veiberan- 
dos, si humanus eris, ceite ncgabis. 

4G6. Quicunque penes se est, ei plus a i)l)i]osopho gratulanduni 
est quam qui penes alio. 

4G7. Cujuscunque ancDla ei niandata eiit, certe afl&iniabit earn 
sibi ininitatti tu esse. 

4G8. Quantocunque aniiuo praeditus esset biirbarus, non vos 
oppugnavisset, si luodo ariDati essetis. 

469. Ea, utut sunt, etsi lido servo indignum, non illc, cui nemo 

amicus est, certe culpabit. 

470. Toto tecto silentium erat, quum servi dominum libcrlumquc, 

utrumque vulneratuni, in atrium portarent. 

1 2 34^5 078 

471. Kec nimium n^c parum pecuniae s^d satis modo desldera. 



472. Serva ilia, si ei bis tanlum pecuniae mandavissemus, etiam- 

tum plus dt'sidoraret. 

473. Aut lioc aut illud villico mandatott" ; si autcm hoc, ne illud. 

474. Satis pecuniae a nuntio rogabar; a vicino autcm nimium; 

utriquo tamen negavi. 

475. Nuntius illo, quae antca dissiiinilaveramus, ncque affirmavit 

nee lU'gavit. 

476. Ego quidem nimis bcllandi siudiosus putorliic autcm niulto 

parum. 

477. Tota scbola turbatur ; alibi ma gistcr alumnum, alibi alum- 

nus servum vcrberat. 

478. Et mea ct tua interest coram magistro servum ilium non 

culpare. 

479. Quid jiueros tantum turbavit ? alius enim alium mendacii 

culpat. 

480. Ycl hoc vel illud, utrum vis, villico da; et si vis utrumque. 



50 THE MASTERY SERIES. . 

Texts XXX.-XXXI. 

3311 22 444995 

481. He strips tlie province of money, that with it he may not 

6 9 7 7 8 10* 11 13 12 12 

only support his own life, but also give to friends. 

482. Horatius was committing his own sword to his son, with 

which to slay that barbarian's comrade. 

483. Who would strip friends of money, only to give to some 

otber man ? 

484. The legate was desiring so much money that the farmers 

of the whole province thought him avaricious. 

485. Were you giving the money of the patron himself to 

Leander's son to luxuriate with ? 

486. But the bull, although very many attacked him with sticks, 

was desirous of attacking this man only. 

487. The one matron affirmed that the neighbour was born of 

the other's slave. 

488. No Eoman's slaves, O Portia, would have hesitated to 
carry thee into the sacred temple when thy bedroom was blazing. 

489. Eelate not this about us, oh friends, to the master, lest we 

should be beaten or much blamed. 

490. If you wish to be loved deny nothing to friends ; set slaves 

free ; trust thyself willingly to comrades. 

33 12 44 5 6687 

491. It delights me indeed that thou thinkest that our town at 

7 15 9 15 15 12 13 14 11 10 U 

least will not be captured by these forces within five years. 

492. Very often within these five years the forces of the bar- 

barians have tried to capture our town. 

493. The tribune indeed who had commanded oui' forces for five 

years, threw himself into the river two years ago. 

494. During the third watch the Parthians' forces threatened the 
city, and yet I do not think that the temples will be attacked. 

495. It has already been told me at Gabii that faithless men- 

servants and maidservants will be beaten. 

496. It delights the people that the tribune has announced that 
all the remaining towns will be captured in the next five years. 

497. In this very town I was present just six years before the 

doctor cured me. 

498. How few slaves there are in the town whom the barbarians 
would not have won over to themselves by giving them money ! 

499. Think not that, since you have committed to me a consider- 
able amount of money, "^I shall give prodigally to friends. 

500. As often as the barbarians' forces shall attack, hide the boys 

and girls, and give javelins even to slaves. 



LATIX M.1XUAL. ol 

Texts XXX.-XXXI. 

1 ^ ^ 2 _ 3 4 5 6 7 7 8 

481. Provinciam pecunia nudat qua non solum siiam ipsius vitam 

10 11 12 13 

sustcntet sed etiam amicis donet. 

482. Horatius suum ipsius gladium nato suo mandabat, quo 

istius barbari socium necaret. 

483. Quis amicos pecunia nudct, tantum ut alii cuidam donet ? 

484. Legatus tantum pecuniae desiderabat, quern totius provinciac 

coloni avaruin putarent. 

48.5. An patroni ipsius pecuniam Leandri, nato dabas qua 

luxuriaret. 

48G. Taurus autem, etsi eum plurimi baculis oppugnavorunt, 
unius hujus opi)ugnandi cujDidus fuit. 

487. Afiirmavit altera matrona vicinam altcrius serva natam esse. 

488. Nullius Eomani soi^-i, cubiculo tuo flagrante, te, O Portia, 

in sacrum templum portare dubitavissent. 

489. Ne baec de nobis, amici, domino narrate, no verberemur, 

neve admodum culpemur. 

490. Si vis amari, ne quid amicis nega ; sei-vos libera; libenter 

te sociis manda. 

12345 « 7 89 

491. Me vero jiivat te piitare nostmm saltern oppidum non 

,10 ^ 11 12 13 It 15 ir, 

quinque annis ab his cojiiis expugnatum hi. 

492. Sacpissime his quinque annis oppidum nostrum expugnare 

barbarorum copiae conatae sunt. 

493. Tribunus vero, qui quinque annos copiis nostris imperavcrat, 

se abhinc duos annos in flu\'ium jactavit. 

494. De tertia vigilia Partliorum copiae oppido minitati sunt ; 

neque tamen puto templa oppugnatum iii. 

49o. Jam mibi Gabiis narratum est servos servasque infidos 

verberatum iri. 

49G. Populum juvat tribunum nuntiavisse cetera oppida his 
quinque annis expugnatum iri. 

497. In hoc ipso oppido sex annos ipsos adfui antequam medicus 

me sanavit. 

498. Quantulum servorum est in oppido quos barbari non sibi 

pecunia data conciliavissent. 

499. Ne puta, quandoquidem mihi aliquantum pecuniae manda- 

veris, me prodige amicis donaturum esse. 

500. Quoties barbarorum copiae oppugnabunt, pueros puellasque 

cela et jacula date etiam sei'vis. 



52 THE MASTERY SEEIES. 

Texts XXXII.-XXXIII. 

23 1 544,4 13 ]3 

501. Those kind shepherds, forgetful of the flocks, would give 

12 6 7 7 8 11 11 11 9 9 10 9 

help even to robbers, if they were lacerated by the dog's fang. 

502. That shepherd, forgetful of the robber, and not solicitous 

for his flock, has lent his dogs to a neighbour. 

503. Those robbers, forgetful of the dogs' teeth, were hoping tc 

attack the flock with the shepherds absent. 

504. If the dog had had but one fang, ye, O flocks, would not 

have been torn by the big wolf. 

505. The farmer did not beat the captured robbers, because they 

had been lacerated by the fangs of the dogs. 

506. The shepherd was relating how robber and dog fought 

yesterday with each other in the countiy. 

507. My little daughter asked whether the dog thought that the 

shejjherd gave him too little help in that flght. 

508. "Would that the bull had lacerated thee, O robber, when thou 

lately attackedst the whole flock. 

509. The dogs of the absent shei)herds, if they were faithful, would 

give help to the flocks. 

510. The judgment was so unjust that the innocent were beaten. 

12 3 3 4 5 12 11 10 

511. Firm was the charioteer's countenance, who, resting on one 

11 6 7 7 9 8 8 16 16 13 15 

knee near the flrst line of chariots, was offering himself to 

15 15 14 14 14 

the blow of the victor. 

512. The archer, with firm countenance, slew the barbarian 

kneeling and entreating near the chariot. 

513. The shepherd affirmed that, whilst fighting amidst the 

chariots, he had one side of his face struck. 

514. O barbarous blow, direr than all other blows, which hait 

robbed Eome of so faithful a commander I 

515. Those Britons, with dreadful countenances, are pressing on 
the very tribune's chariot, and giving themselves to our blows. 

516. What dreadful countenances the barbarians had who were 

giving cruel blows to the Eoman soldiers I 

517. This unguent indeed is fittest for a wounded knee or face. 

518. The archer's knee was wounded with a javelin when he gave 

himself to the blow on behalf of his master. 

519. Oh tardy chariots, which carried not the wounded com- 
mander quickly enough from the blows of the barbarians. 

520. The soldiers, whom he caused to be carried out of the fi^ht, 
had been wounded, some in their knees and some in their faeces. 



LATIX MANUAL. 53 

Text XXXII.-XXXIII. 

1 2 ^ . J ^^ ' ^ 

501. Pastores isti benigni pecorum obliti, etiam latronibus, si 

9 10 11 _ 11 ^ 12 13 

dente canis lacerati essent, openi darent. 

502. Pastor iste, latronis oblitus, nee pecori soelicitus, canes vicino 

cominodavit. 

503. Latrones isti, dentium canuin obliti, sperabant se pecus, 

pastoribus absentibus, oppugnatmo sesse. 

504. Xisi caiii unus tantummodo dens fuisset, non vos pecora a 

magno lupo lacerata essetis. 

505. Colonus captos latrones non verberavit qui dentibus cannm 

lacerati essent. 

500. Pastor narrabat ut latro canisque heii rure inter se 
pugnarent. 

507. Rogavit filiola mea utrum canis putaret pastorem sibi paruni 

opis in ilia IJUgna dare. 

508. O si taiirus te latro lacel•a^dssot quum, nuper totum pecus 

oppugnares I 

509. Absentiiun pastorum canes, si fidi sint, pecoribus opcm dent. 

510. Ita injustum. erat judicium ut innocentes verberati sint. 

1 ^ ^2 3 i 5 6 7 8 

511. Firmiis erat aurlgae vulliis, qui juxta primuni curruum 

■ 10 n 12 13 11 15 Jtj 

ordinem altero genu fultiis se victoris ictui dabat. 



512. Sagittarius fiimo vultu baibaruin genu fultuiu orantemque 

juxta currum necavit. 

513. Affirmavit pastor unam quideni vultus partem sibi dum in 

currubus pugnaret ictum esse. 

514. O barbare ictus, caeteris ictibus diiior, qui Eomam tarn fido 

praefecto spoliavisti. 

515. Britanni illi, horridis vultibus, ipsius tribuni currui instantes 

nostris iciibus se dant. 

51G. Quam borridi erant vultus baibaiis qui militibus Eomanis 
crudeles ictus dabant. 

517. Hoc vero unguentum genu vultuive lacerato aptissimum est. 

518. Genu armigeri, quum se pro hero ictui daret, jaculo vulnera- 

tum est. 

519. O tardi currus, qui non satis cito praefcctum ab ictibus 

barbarorum portavistis. 

520. Alii genua, alii vultus vulnerati erant milites, quos e pugna 

portandos curavit. 



54 THE MASTEEY SERIES. 

Texts XXXIV.-XXXV. 

2 1 2 ^ 3 4 4 6 _ 5 11 

o21. A wonderful vision whicli, as if foreboding disaster, hovered 

8 7 8 9 10 lb 15 15 14 14 12 

on these days over the battle-line, was opposed to the prior 

14 13 13 

hope of success. 

522. Destruction, wasting the line six days, contradicted hope. 

523. The tribune of the first line exhorted and entreated the 

soldiers to fight against impending disaster. ^ 

524. Unless a second hope remains what, except disaster, dost 

thou, O strange vision, forebode to our affairs ? 

525. Disaster being foreboded by that strange appearance, the 

first line will no longer fight with the barbarians. 

526. O wretched day, O dreadful visions, which have robbed me 

of even the semblance of hope. 

527. Certain strange visions were hovering over the battle-line, 

contradicting the hope of earlier days. 

528. Who is so desirous of ease as to deny these things to sons 

and daughters when they ask ? 

529. How faithful were the troops, which kept fighting with so 

great a force of soldiers the space of six days. 

530. If the consuls were here, even now some hopes would remain. 

7 1 2 7 3 56G 44 8 

531. Has anyone ever shewn himself such a master of himself as 

10 10 11 11 11 

the King of the Thracians ? 

532. Had anyone ever shewn himself such a master of that 

Thracian as the Thracian himself ? 

533. Some even in the midst of battles, at the exhortation of 
the king, have shewn themselves masters of themselves. 

534. A Eoman soldier, in fighting with the powerful king of the 

Allobrogians, will ever have shewn himself worthy. 

535. My friend has never related to the king how we showed 

ourselves masters of ourselves. 

536. Had that faithful Thracian commanded, our allies would 

never have shewn themselves so timid. ■ 

537. Which of them does not think that those shepherds have 

sometimes shewn themselves masters of the thieves ? 

538. Very few Thracians had shewn themselves so unfaithful to 

their kings as to ravage the flocks. 

539. Unless where fighting with Allobrogians, we should never 

have shewn ourselves so fierce. 

540. The townsmen ask the Cilicians who have in any way she^-n 

themselves so benign to them as I. 



LATIX MAXrAI.. 55 

Texts XXXIV.-XXXV. 

12 2 3 4 5 6 7 

521. Mira quidem species, quae quasi pemicienipraeinintians, his 

8 9 10 11 _ 12 13 13 14 

diebus super acie volitavit, priori rerum secundarum spei 

15 

repugnavit. 

522. Pernicies, sex dies aciem vastans, spei repugnavit. 

523. Priniae aciei tribunus milites hortatus est oratque ut instanti 

Ijerniciei rei)ugnarent. 

524. Nisi spes altera superest, quid nisi pemiciem rebus nostris, 

O mira species, i)raenuutias !' 

525. Mira ilia specie pernicie praenuntiata non jam prima 

acies cum baibaiis pugnabit. 

526. O. misera dies, O horridae species, quae me etiam sj^ecie 

spei si3olia*istis. 

527. Mirae quaedam species super aciem volitabant prioi-um 

dierum spei repugnantes. 

528. Quis tam otii cupidus est ut filiis filiabusque rogantibus 

has res neget ? 

529. Quam fidac erant acios, quae sex diorum spatium cum 

tanto milite pugnabant. 

530. Si consules adessent, aliquao spes etiamnunc superessent. 

1 2 245 6 7 8 10 

531. Ecquis unquani se siii tam potentcm praebiiit quam rex 

Thracum ? 

532. Ecquis unquam se Thracis illius tam i)otentcm praebuerat 

quam Thrax ipse '1 

533. NonnuUi etiam in mediis pugnis, rege hortante, se sui 

potontes praebuerunt. 

534. Eomanus miles, cum potenti Allobrogum rege pugnans, se 

nunquam non dignum praebuerit. 

535. Amicus mens nunquam rcgi nan-avit ut nos nostrum potentes 

praebuerimus. 

53G. Si fidus ille Thrax praefuisset, socii nostri se nunquam tam 
timidos praebuissent. 

537. Quis illorum non putat i:)astores illos nonnunquam se 

latronum potentes praebuisse ? 

538. Perpauci Thraces se regibus tam infidos praebuerant, ut 

pecora vastarcnt. 

539. Nisi ubi cum Allobrogibus pugnaremus, nusquam nos tam 

feroces j)raebuissemus. 

540. Oppidaiii Cilices rogant, qui ullomodo se iis tam benignoa 

pracbuerint quam ego. 



5Q THE MASTEEY SEEIES. , 

Texts XXXVI.-XZXVII. 

1 75 766 2 344 8-11 

541. Who does not forbid a soldier, even amidst a battle, injuring 

10 9 10 

an unarmed enemy ? 

542. Who is that bold barbarian who has lately prevented his 

comrades from doing harm to unarmed foes ? 

543. Was not a Cilician xoreventing the bold AUobrogian from 

hurting a wounded foe ? 

544. Who has ever ordered that injury should be done to unarmed 

men ? Certainly no humane man. 

545. Will anyone prevent the fierce soldiers from hurting my 

unarmed fj.iend ? Noone. 

546. Even when unarmed, do not shew thyself timid before the 

rest, when the fierce ba]"barian approaches thee. 

547. How shall the robbers be prevented injuring the unarmed 

shepherds except by soldiers ? 

548. The female captives were tej-iified when I affirmed that I 

was not going to prohibit your hurting them. 

549. Whom would' st thou persuade that harm should be done 

to the unarmed foes ? The consul or the centurion ? 

550. Scarcely anyone was present to j)revent harm being done. 

112 234 5 4 6 69 

551. There are some who say that thy husband the farmer is 

^9^ _ 7 8 8 8 10 10 10 17 14 16 

girding himself with a sword, in order to lead against the 

15 _ 16 11 11 13 13 12 12 

hostile phalanx the slaves united to the youths. 

552. There were some here who said that a certain youth would 

lead thy husband's slaves against the robbers. 

553. The consuls came to lead the soldiers against the phalanx. 

554. Had the Cilicians been here, no one would have prevented 

even the youths from being girt with swords. 

555. Let the shepherds be united to the soldiers, that they may 

be led against the foe. 

556. The consul proceeded to gud himself with a sword, and to 
lead the husbands of the Spartan women against the foe. 

557. The Thracians are on us ! The youths must be girt with 

swords ; for the consul Avill lead the phalanx. 

558. Lead these men, O tribune, against the dangerous consul ; 

for he is a foe to the commonwealth. 

559. Unite farmers and youths with the soldiers, and lead them 

against the mutinous phalanx. 

560. While the bold consul is girding himself with a sword, the 

robbers are rushing into the palace. 



LATix m,a:n'ual. 57 

Texts XXXVI.-XXXVII. 

12 3345_U 7 S 

541. Quls etiam medio in praelio non militem proliibet quominus 

_ 10 ^11 

inermi liosti noceat ? 

542. Quis est audax ille barbarus qui socios nuper probibuit 

quominus inerniibus hostibus noceant ? 

543. Nonne Cilix audacem Allobrogcm probibebat quominus 

vulneiato bosti noceret. 

544. Quis unquam imporavit ut inermibus nocendum sit? Xcmo 

sane bumanus. 

545. Ecquis fcroces milites prohibebit, quominus amico nico 

inermi noceant ? Nemo. 

54G. Ne te etiam inermem, barbaro feroci tibi oppugnante, coram 
ceteris timidum praebe ! 

547. Quomodo latrones nisi a militibus jDrobibebuntur quominus 

* inermibus pastoribus noceant '1 

548. Captivae tcrritae sunt, quum affirmarcm me non vos pro- 

bibiturum esse quominus iis noceretis. 

549. Cuinam persuadeas ut inermibus bostibus noceatur ? Xum 

consuli an centurioni 'i 

550. Fere nemo aderat qui probiberet quominus noccretur. 

123 4 5 (578!) 

551. Sunt qui dicant conjiigem tuum colonum se gladio accingere 

10 11 12 13 (4 15 10 17 

ut servos jiivenibus conjunctos in infestum pbalangem ducat. 



552. Aderant qui dicerent juvenom quemdam conjugis tui sen'os 

in latrones ducturum esse. 

553. Aderant consules ut milites in pbalangem ducerent. 

554. Si adfuissent Cilices, nemo probibuisset quominus etiam 

juvenes gladiis ac( ingerentur. 

bbb. Conjugantur pastores militibus ut in bostem ducantur. 

yoQt. Consul se gladio accingebat et Spartanarum conjuges in 
hostem ducebat. 

557. Instant Tbraces I juvenes gladiis accingendi sunt; consul 

eniin pbalangem ducet. 

558. Hos due, tribune, contra infestum consulem ; bostis enim 

est reii)ublicae 

559..Colonos juvenesque cum militibus conjunge et due contra 
seditiosam pbalangem. 

560. Consule audaci se gladio accingente, latrones in rcgiam 
incursant. 



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Texts XXXVIII.-XXXIX. 

15 2 5 3 4 i 

561. Philip lias hillierto ruled amidst arduous circumstances, 

6 8 8 7 7 9 12 12 10 11 12 

•wherefore there is no reason why he should not always rule. 

562. The consul, having led the troops back to Eome, was 

honoured by the senate. 

563. By whom is Germany governed ? By William, who leads 

the troops through such arduous dangers ? 

564. Consuls now rule the Eoman phalanxes, which then a 

tribune ruled. 

565. He led up hither the barbarians, whom he had now long 
ruled over ; there was nothing against his attacking the Cilicians. 

566. If we should lead the farmers and villagers against the foe, 

we should certainly gird ourselves with swords. 

•567. The king himself, had he only girded himself with a^word, 
would have led the troops hither. 

568. How wonderful would it be to relate if the king himself were 

hastening to lead the youths against the foe I 

569. Thy comrade, in affirming that Philip had on account of an 

injury girded himself with a sword, spoke falsehood. 

570. Nevertheless the consul asks the king Avhether he himself 

will lead the troops through difficulties. 

14 _2 3 4 5 8 7 888 

571. Nero has either just heard or will soon hear that the slav<' 

9 10 11 12 14 14 13 

once so cruelly punished has returned home. 

572. And if the master shall have heard this, he will have 

certainly been as much astonished as possible. 

573. Cato was hearing from thy husband with snriDiise that 
the shepherd, whom he had formerly punished, had returned. 

574. Had the queen then been present, she would have heard a 

strange thing indeed from the messenger. 

575. To the unjust judge it has been rightly said by the consuls : 

Hear thou the other side. 

576. Tacitus would certainly punish the youth if he were to 

hear that he had robbed the boys of their purses. 

577. Some one amiounces that the consul has returned hither to 

punish the seditious soldiers. 

578. The mistress asks me whether I shall punish those slaves. 

579. They will soon hear, as they hope, that the shepherd has 

severely punished those robbers. 

580. Let not their being barbarians terrify thee ; for they ai'o 

faithful messengers and worthA^ to be heard. 



LATIX MANUAL. i)d 



Texts XXXVIII.-XXXIX. 

1 2 2345 6 7 

561. Philippus usque adhuc inter ardiia reit ; quapropter nihil 

8 9 10 n 12 

est ciir non semper regat. 

of)2. Consul, quum milites Eomam reduxisset, a senatu honoratus 

est. 

5G3. A quo Gerinania rcgitur? a Guliclmo, qui per tarn ardua 
pericula milites ducit ? 

564. Romanas phalanges, quas tunc tribunus rexit, nunc regunt 

consulcs. 

565. Hue adduxit barbaros, quos jam diu rexerat ; nihd crat cur 

non Cilices oppugnaret. 

566. Si colonos paganosque contra hostem duxeiimus, certo nos 

gladiis accinxeiimus. 

567. Rex ipse, si modo se gladio accinxisset, milites hue duxisset. 

568. Quam miruui esset narratu si proporaret rex ipse juvenes in 

hostem ductumi 

569. Socius tuus, quum nuntiarot Philippum propter injuriam so 

• gladio accinxisse, falsa dixit. 

570. Xihilominus regem rogat consul utrum ipse milites per 

ardua diicturus sit. 

12 3 4 5 (i 7 8 10 

571. Nero v^l jam audlvit vel mux audiet servum oUm tarn 

11 12 13 14 

inhumane punltum domum r^diisse. 

572. Quod si dominus audivt^rit, certe quam maximo attonltus 

fuerit. 

573. Cato e conjuge tuo attonitus audiebat, pastorem rediisse 

quem olim puniverat. 

574. Si turn adfuisset regina, miram quidem rem e nuntio audi- 

visset. 

575. Injusto judici a consulibus jui-e dictum est: ** Audi alteram 

partem." 

576. Tacitus juvenem certe puniat si audiat eum pueros loculis 

spoliavisse. 

577. Nuntiat aliquis consulem hue rediisse ad seditiosos milites 

puniendos. 

578. Rogat domina me num servos illos puniturus sim. 

579. Mox audicnt, ut sperant, pastorem latroncs illos severe 

punivisse. 

580. Ne te terreat quod barbari sunt; Fidi enim nuntii sunt et 

diffni audit u. 



CO THE MASTERY SERIES. 



Texts XL.-XLI. 

122 2 344 5 14 14 6 

581. So free from harslmess was tlie enemy that he tended a 

6 11 7 8 8 10 10 10 12 13 13 

boy, left by his father when a fugitive, like his own. 

582. My father, when flying from Naples, left the boy to me to 

be tended. 

583. The king hears that certain barbarians are tending the 

consul like a comrade. 

584. The rustics hear that the robbers are soon going to attack 

the pastors and the defenceless flock with sticks. 

585. The judge would punish the murderer even if he discovered 

that he had not ravaged tbe villa. 

586. Have the masters yet heard that their daughters, whilst they 

were away, were tended by a certain Thracian ? 

587. Certain men afiirm that the slaves will be punished by the 

shepherd when he is heve. 

588. A just judge, although he is judging an unworthy cause, 

must always hear the other side. 

589. Others, however, affirm that the mistress will not be tended 

by the slaves in the absence of the master. 

590. The bailiff heard that the youths will be united with the 

soldiers to resist the robbers. 

12 3 3 4 5 7 8 9 6 10 13 

591. Is that the same chief who long ago exhorted me to serve 

11 11 11 12 p 12 13 

as long as I might be able ? 

592. It is the sign of a good messenger to be a,ble to relate to 

thee to-day the same things that he did yesterday. 

593. Will the barbarian be able to slay the tribune in the same 

way that be did his slave ? 

594. The farmer entrusted the sword to the same soldier as the 

prince's fiiend would entrust it to, had he been able. 

595. This I can tell you for certain, that the prince's palace has 

long ago been burnt. 

596. The consul had had as much money entrusted to him as I. 

597. We hope to esteem thee, if we are able, just as highly as 

the consul does us. 

598. He was a friend, like a second self, when the mutinous 

mob of soldiers jushed on me. 

599. That same chief, having exhorted the soldiery, kept facing 

the foe as long as he could. 

600. The consul, who also was lately a fugitive from Capua, Was 

honoured just as if he had been triumi)hant. 



LATII^ MANUAL. 61 



Texts XL.-XLI. 

1 23 45 6 78^ 10^ 

581. Tarn mitis erat hostis iit piierum a patre profugo 

11 12 12 13 14 

relictum pariter ac suum nutriret. 

582. Pater meus, Neapoli profugus, puerum mihi reliquit nutri- 

endum. 

583. Audit rex barbaros quosdam consulem pariter ac socium 

nutrire. 

584. Audiunt rustici latrones mox pastores et inerme j^ecus 

baculis o]Dpiigiiaturos esse. 

585. Judex sicarium puniret etiam si sentiret cum non villain 

vastavisse. 

586. Nuin jam audiverunt domini, filiolas suas, dum ipsi abcssent, 

a Tlirace quodam nutriri ? 

587. Affirmant quidam, servos a pastore quum adsit punitum iri. 

588. Justus judex, etiamsi causam indignam judicat, alteram 

semper partem audito. 

589. Affirmant tamen alii, dominam a servis, domino absente, non 

nutritum iri. 

590. Villicus audivit juvenes cum militibus conjunctum iri ut 

latronibus obstent. 

123 4 5678 9 9 10 

591. Estne is idem princeps qui me diu abbinc bortatus est ut, 

11 12 13_ 

dum possem, mllitarem ? 

592. Boni nuntii est eadem tibi bodie narrare posse quae beri. 

593. Poteritne barbarus eodem modo tribunum necare quo servum 

ejus ? 

594. Colonus gladium eidem militi mandavit, cui mandavisset 

principis amicus, si potuisset. 

595. Hoc tibi certo dicere possum, principis regiam diu abbinc 

crematam esse. 

596. Consuli tantumdem pecuniae mandatum erat quantum mibi. 

597. Speramus fore ut, si possimus, te tantidem aestimemus quanti 

nos consul. 

598. Amicus erat ille, tanquam alter idem, quum in me seditiosa 

militum turba incursaret. 

599. Idem ille princeps, milites hoitatus, sedumpoterat hostibus 

obviam dabat. 

600. Consul, qui nuper erat idem Capua profugus, eodem modo 

bonoratus est quasi triumphavisset. 



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Text XLII. 



441433 3 22 5 

601. He was then going to swim througli the stream, hoping 

6 7 10 8 8 P 

thus to cross a little quicker. 

602. He gives to me the same amount of money as to thee, that 

I may go across to Eome quicker than the barbarian. 

603. So long as I shall be able, I will go daily to swim either in 

the river or the lake. 

604. The prince crossed over the river so quickly that he seemed 

little desirous of the fight. 

605. I hope he will cross to me to give me some money; and I 

desire nothing excessive. 

606. Before he had crossed the river he had given to the rustic a 

smaller javelin than to the soldier. 

607. As far as I am concerned, oh boy, thou mayest go to smni 

through the river as quickly as possible. 

608. You may entrust as large a sword as you please to my 

husband ; he will be able to swim even in arms. 

609. Every barbarian, the Eomans being conquerors, tried to 

swim through the stream as quickly as he could. 

610. Thy remembrance of me pleases me ; for a man who has 

many friends has courage in proportion . 

611. It charms me very much that I am praised by the piince, 

and am not forbidden to go home. 

612. Some say that the Eomans were being i-uled by the same 

consul that conquered the Parthians a little before. 

613. If you are being even inhumanly punished, it is by no 
means more, oh slaves, than in proportion to jour deserts. 

614. Fear not; unless thou shalt have punished the servants 
unjustly, the boys will be tended in the deserted villa. 

615. For the sake of me only, O villager, thou art being punished, 
because thou didst not tend me in the blockade of the town. 

616. Be admonished, O friends, nor relate this to the neighbours 

about the master, lest ye be punished. 

617. If thou wouldst repel the enemy thou must be adjnonished 

opportunely, and unite the soldiery %\dth the rustics. 

618. The chief indeed, having swum through the river with all 
possible speed, hastened to Eome boldly and bravely. 

619. If we are to punish any, let us beat the soldiers in the same 

place where we did the mutinous Cilicians. 

620. Be eager for battle, oh soldiers, for ye are Eomans ; where- 

fore ye must be fearless. 



LATIN MANUAL. 63 



Text XLII. 

1 2 3457768 

601. Turn amnem pematatum ibat sperans fore lit ita paullo 

10 

citius translret. 

602. Idem pecuniae mihi dat quod tibi, qui ad Romam citius 

barbaro transcaui. 

603. Quamdiu^potero, indies vel in amne velinlacu natatum ibo. 

604. PiT.ncei)s ita cito amnem transivit, ut pugnae paullum 

studiosus visus sit. 

605. Spero eum ad mc transiturum esse ut aliquid pecuniae 

donet ; nee quicquam nimium desidero. 

606. Antequam amnem transiverat, rustico minus jaculum dona- 

verat quam militi. 

607. Quantum in me, O puer, amnem quam citissime pematatum 

eas. 

608. Quantumvis gladium conjugi meo mandetis : etiam armatus 

natare X'otorit. 

609. Unusquisque barbarus, Romanis victoribus, amnem quam 

puterit citissime pernatare conatus est. 

610. Tua mei momora me delectat; homini enim quantum 

amicorum tantum est animi. 

611. Me plurimum delectat quod a principe laudor nee proliibeor 

quomiiius domum cam. 

612. Sunt qui dicant Eomanos ab codem consule regi qui paullo 

ante Pai-tbos vicit. 

613. Si etiam inhumane punimini, baudquaquam plus est, servi, 

quam pro mentis vestris. 

614. Ne time; nisi sei-vos injuste puniveris, pueri tui in villa 

relicta nutiientur. 

615. Mca unius causa, O pagane, puniris quia non me oppido 

obsesso nutrivisti. 

610. Moncmiiii, amici ; nee haec vicinis de domino narrate, ne 
puniamini. 

617. Si vis bostes repellere, ox)portune monetor; militesque 

cum rusticis conjungito. 

618. Princeps vero, quum amnem quam citissime pernatavisset, 

audactor fortiterque ad Eomam projjeravit. 

619. Si quos puniamus, ibidem milites verberemus ubi seditiosos 

Cnices. 

620. Este pugnae cupidi, milites ; Romani enim estis ; quamob- 

rem estote intrepidi. 



G4 THE MASTEEY SEEIES. 



Text XLIII. 

2 3 3 4 4 15 5 5 7 

621. Alttiougli wlien thou didst wish this he was unwilling, yet 

6 10 ]0 10 9 9 9 8 8 8 8 

now he is reported to prefer it of his own accord. 

622. If he wished to be xoraised he should perform what he 

had XDromised to friends. 

623. I could wish, oh f]iend, tbou wast here to give ine some 

courage. 

624. And since, oh Portia, these tlnngs are so, I sLould wish thee 

to relate the whole matter to the merciful judge. 

625. I indeed could wish that thou hadst not entrusted that 

javelin to that bold barbaiian. 

626. I would rather thou didst endure anything than serve him ; 

I would rather indeed that thou hadst slain thyself. 

627. If you sbould wish, oh friends, to be loved, you should 

perform what you long ago promised. 

628. I should not have to go, did not thou, my trusty shepherd, 

commit these letters to me. 

629. Thus, however, he is reported to have said : that they 
should consider who in the town had to be won over to them. 

630. In the first place, we were asking why they were now 

declining that which they had before preferred. 

631. I should like to be with you to hasten with the auxiliaries 

to the besieged town together. 

632. The commander's letter. he was bearing to the prince, but 

was unwilling to announce the barbarians' victory. 

633. It is the duty of a trusty soldier to decline to wish, and 

to be even able to do the same things as his chief. 

634. These things indeed we wish for, if we can have them ; 
perhaps when they shall have been given, we shall prefer others. 

635. The master was showing to the pupil that the dog was a 

quadruped, the boy a biped. 

636. Commit this great work, O master, to one only, and not to 

a multitude. 

637. What? Had the tribune, who had been wounded in one 

foot, no need of a staff ? 

638. Ye must carry these swords, four feet long, to the shepherds, 

since the robbers are going to attack. 

639. This man is blacker than the one near you, but yonder man 

is blackest. 

640. The dog is reported to be so bold an animal as alone to attack 

the robber, armed mth a stick. 



LATIN MANUAL. 65 



Text XLIII. 

1 234 56789 

021. Hoc, quanquam te volente noluit, jam tamen ultro malle 

10 

fertur. 

622. Si laudari vellet, praestaret quod aniicis promisisset. 

623. Vellem, O amice, adesses, ut miH aliquid animi dares. 

624. Quae quum ita sint, Portia, velim totam rem dementi 

judici narres. 

625. Equidem nollem hoc j aculum audaci illi barbaro mandavisses. 

626. Mallem quidvis perferres quam illi servires ; mallem quidem 

ipse te necavisses. 

627. Si amari velitis, amici, praestetis quod diu abbinc pro- 

miseritis. 

628. Non cundum esset mibi, nisi tu mihi, mi fide pastor, has 

litteras mandares. 

629. Ita tamen dixisse fertur : viderent qui sibi in oppido 

conciliandi essent. 

630. Primum rogabamus, cur id quod antea maluissent jam 

tamen nollent. 

631. Velim tecum esse, ut simul ad circumsessum oppidum cum 

auxiliis proxDeremus. 

632. Praefecti quidem litteras ad princiijem ferebat, barbarorum 

autem victoriam nuntiare nolebat. 

633. Fidi militis est, eadem nolle, eadem velle, eadem etiam posse 

quae princeps. 

634. Haec vero si possumus, volumus ; forte, quum data erint, 

alia malemus. 

635. Magister alumno demonstrabat, canem quadnipedem, 

puerum bipedem esse. 

636. Magnum hoc opus, domine, uni tantum, ne multitudini 

manda. 

637. Quid ? Nonne opus erat baculo tribuno, qui alteram pedem 

vulneratus erat. 

638. Hos gladios, quattuor pedes longos, pastoribus fertote, 

quandoquidem latrones oppugnaturi sunt. 

639. Nigrior quidem est hie isto, ille tamen nigerrimus. 

640. Tam audax animal fertur esse cards, ut latronem baculo 

armatum solus oppugnet. 



66 THE MASTEBY SERIES. 



Text XLIV. 

1 2 443 3_ 566 

641. This, however, he wishes to investigate, how it happens 

7 9 8 15 10 11 12 13 14 14 

that that soldier bore neither hunger nor cold with patience. 

642. He is, however, unwilling to say how his comrade has 

borne the hunger and the cold. 

643. The barbarian prefers to fight on foot, but the tribune on 

horseback. 

644. Thinkest thou that it will be advantageous to close the gates 
of the town, if the barbarian has already explored it all ? 

645. The rustic desires to be in the country ; does not often depart 

from, the country ; ever returns happy to the country. 

646. How does it happen that the tribune, when he went to face 

the chariot, was not slain ? 

647. The soldier will become untrustworthy, if you ask him to 

endure an excess of hunger and cold. 

648. What do you wish to discover ? Surely not how it happens 

that the soldier is willing to bear so much cold ? 

649. When the republic flourished it was the mark of a Roman 
to have borne hunger and cold whenever it had been necessary. 

650. Labour and glory, though arduous, are things worthy of a 

Eoman to become desirous of. 

651. Every rustic, if he could bear hunger, would become a 

soldier if danger threatened the republic. 

652. I lately called " Woe to the conquered;" to-day, however, 
it is woe to the conqueror who is not in his own power. 

653. Not every error is to be called by thee folly, if only thou 

hast a mind conscious of right. 

654. How often, when Cicero was consul, was Rome saved out of 

great dangers ! 

655. Do ye say that, since the tribune has returned to Rome 

conqueror, he must needs triumph ? 

656. I praise thee for having wished to discover how it happens 

that the slave has been punished. 

657. I could not command so many soldiers if I wished ; nor 

perchance would I wish if I could. 

658. The chief encouraged the forces not to despair ; they 
should, however, have as much courage as he himself had. 

659. Tho' strength be wanting, yet a soldier must endure hunger 

and cold. 

660. Since what you wish cannot be done, take care to wish for 

what can be done. 



LATIN MANUAL. 



67 



Text XLIV. 

1 23 4 5 6789 10 

641. Haec tamen explorare vult, quomodo fiat ut miles ille nee 

11 12 13 14 ^ 14 15 

famem neque frigiis aequo animo tulerit. 

642. Dicere autem nonvult quomodo socius suus famem frigusque 

tulerit. 

643. Barbarus pedibus pugnare mavult, tribunus autem ex equo. 

644. 'Nnm putas profuturum esse oppidi portas claudere, sitotum 

barbarus exploraverit ? 

645. Eusticus ruri esse cupit, non saepe rure abit, semper laetus 

rus redit. 

646. Quomodo fit ut tribunus, quum currui obviam iverit, non 

necatus sit. 

647. Fiet miles infidus, si eum orabitis utnimium famis frigorisque 

perferat. 

648. Quid vultis explorare ? Num quomodo fiat ut miles tantum 

frigoris ferre velit ? 

649. Eepublica florente, Eomani erat famem frigusque, quando- 

cunque necesse f uerat, pertulisse. 

650. Labor et gloria, etsi ardua, Eomano digna sunt, quorum 

cupidus fiat. 

651. Eusticus quisque, si famem ferre posset, periculo reipublicae 

minitante miles fieret. 

652. Nuper clamavi vae victis, hodie tamen vae victori qui non 

penes se sit. 

653. Non omnis tibi error stultitia est dicenda, si modo animus 

tibi recti conscius est. 

654. Quoties, consule Cicerone, Eoma magnis e periculis servata 

est! 

655. Num dicitis, quum tribunus Eomam redierit victor, necesse 

esse ut triumpbet ? 

656. Te laudo, quod explorare volueris quomodo fiat ut servus 

punitus sit. 

657. Non tot militibus imperare possem, si vellem ; nee forte 

vellem si possem. 

658. Princeps copias hortatus est, ne desperarent; iis tamen 

tantus esset animus quantus sibi. 

659. Ut desint vires, tamen famem frigusque perferto miles. 

660. Quoniam id quod vis fieri non potest, cura velis id quod 

potest. 
f2 



68 THE MASTEEY SERIES. 



Text XLV. 

2 1 5 543 4.677_ 

661. Thougla thou shouldst weary of this business, yet it would 

7 1 11 11 8 8 9 10 

behove thee to accomplish a thing once undertaken. 

662. For thee, indeed, it is allowable to be unwilling to undertake 
the affair ; yet when undertaken thou oughtest to perform it. 

663. Had we been allowed, we should never have wearied of 
praising the tribune when he triumphed over the Gauls. 

664. What will it behove you to do, if you shall weary of these 

things when once undertaken ? 

665. Thou, when the barbarian attacked, thou, of all men, 

oughtest to have endured hunger and cold. 

666. I have long been weary of this service ; I must at once 

return home. 

667. Discover what you ought to do, not how much you might 

have done. 

668. It pleases the senate that Camillus should triumph over the 

conquered Gauls. 

669. It concerns me indeed greatly that you should return home 

as early as possible. 

670. Unless excess of labour were always pressing on me, life 

would be passed in contentment. ' 

671. A journey is being made to the temple of Vesta, that there 

that boy may be consecrated to a divine work. 

672. Even when perils press on us, we ought rather to discover 

what is right than what is expedient. 

673. Would that it could have been reported to Eome that the 

barbarians are going to invade the provinces ! 

674. It is thought to be more becoming for a Eoman to have 
completed a thing than to have merely undertaken it. 

675. It very little beseems a man to hide himself during the 

fighting ; nay indeed it is discreditable. 

676. It concerns our interests, more than those of others, that 

these things should not be related to the master. 

677. He says in fact that, by none of the barbarians was the 

battle so savagely fought as by the Cilician. 

678. While I am allowed to be at rest, do not hope that I shall 

fight either at home or abroad. 

679. In my judgment, if anyone, who ought to serve as a soldier, 

is weary of service, he ought to be censured. 

680. As for us, even if we were weary of this business, yet it 

would behove us to accomplish it if undertaken. 



LATIN MANUAL. 69 



Text XLV. 

12 ;5 4 5 ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ u^^ ^ 

*j61. Te licet hujus negotii taedeat, tamen oporteat rem semel 

10 11 

inceptam perf icere. 

662. Tibi vero, licet rem incipere nolle; inceptam tamen te 

oportet perficere. 

663. Si nobis licuisset, nunquam nos taeduisset tribunum de 

Gallis triumpbantem laudare. 

664. Quid vos facere oportebit, si harum rerum semel inceptarum 

taedebit ? 

665. Te, barbaro ox^pugnante, te potissimum oportuit famcm 

frigusque perfcrre. 

666. Jamdiu me hujus militiae taedet; statim rcdeundum est 

domum. 

667. Explorate quid vos facere oporteat, non quantum vobis 

licuerit. 

668. Senatui placet, Camillum de victis Gallis triumphare. 

669. Mea quidem magni interest te quamprimum domum redii*e. 

670. Nisi nimium laboris mibi semper instaret, contento animo 

viveretur. 

671. Ad Vestae itur, ubi puer ille divino operi consecretur. 

672. Periculis etiam instantibus , potius quid oporteat explorandum 

est quam quid expediat. 

673. Utinam ad Eomam perf erri potuisset barbaros in provinciam 

incm-satui'os esse ! 

674. Eomanum rem perfecissc magis decere putatur quam solum 

incepisse. 

675. Virum quidem se inter pugnandum celare minime decet ; 

immo vero dedecet. 

676. Nostra vero, magis quam ceterorum, interest haec non 

domino narrari. 

677. Dicit quidem a nuUo barbarorum tam saeve pugnari quam a 

Cilicu. 

678. Dum autem mihi otioso esse liceatj^ ne sjjera me domi 

bellive pugnaturum esse. 

679. Me judice, si quern, quern oportet militare, militiae taedet, 

vituxDcraii oportet. 

680. Nos vero, etiam si liujus negotii taederet, tamen inceptuiu 

pei-ficcre oporteret. 



70 THE MASTERY SERIES. 



Text XL VI. 

22144 3 56 777 

681. It pleases us to try enterprises; but thou wilt repent it, 

8 9 9 10 10 10 U 11 U 

unless thou feelest that things begun must be completed. 

682. Thou art, in fact, blaming us, as if we were repenting of 

having undertaken these things. 

683. Could you not have admonished the boy before he tried to 

attack the wolf ? 

684. We have brought a letter to you, that thereby you may be 

warned not to leave these things unperformed. 

685. We could not but be pleased, if thou wert to entrust thy 

little daughter to our neighbour to hide. 

686. We fear, however, that thou, being of a weak mind, will 

repent of this arduous undertaking. 

687. Art thou asking me what I have said in this letter ? I fear 

that thou will announce it to others. 

688. If the robber has rushed by night into the palace, holding a 
torch in each hand, I fear the queen cannot hide herself. 

689. Barbarian, I am a tribune ; both he and I are Eomans ; 

fear not that we shall not conquer. 

690. We once were conquerors ; our glory once was ; whither has 

it gone at last ? 

691. In the coming fight ye must be in the van ; while the allies 

must be in the centre. 

692. Praise the faithful ; tend the wounded ; terrify the faithless ; 

lead the troops against the foe. 

693. I feel indeed that no one ought to fear, now that the tribune 

is leading the forces ; yet I do fear. 

694. I indeed long ago perfected what I undertook ; while what 

thou hast undertaken thou art leaving imperfect. 

695. Dost thou wish me to undertake these hard matters ? Tea, 

and even harder ones than these. 

696. That excellent father commanded his sons and daughters to 

trust in him and fear nothing. 

697. Where have the troops been stationed ? At Philippi or at 

Ephesus ? 

698. O slaves, unless ye feel that ye will be unjustly punished, 

go and relate this to your master. 

699. Hast thou repented of thy undertaking ? I fear, my friend, 

thou art of weak mind. 

700. Curtius said that he feared that, as long as the barbarians 
were on this side, no resistance could be made to them. 



LATIN MANUAL. 71 



Text XL VI. 

1 23 4 567^ 

681. Nobis quidem libet ardiia suscipere ; at te paenitebit, 

8 9 10 ^ u u 

nisi sentias suscepta perf icienda esse. 

682. Nos quidem culpas, quasi paeniteat has res suscepisse. 

683. Nonne vobis puerum admonere licuit, antequam lupum 

oppugnare conatus est ? 

684. Litteras ad vos pertulimus, unde moneamuii ne has res 

relinquatis iinperfectas. 

685. Non fieri potest quin nobis libeat, si vicino nostro filiolam 

tuam mandes celandam. 

686. Timemus autem, ne te, qui infirmi sis animi, arduorum 

horum inceptorum paeniteat. 

687. An tu me rogas quid in hac epistola dixerim ? timeo vero 

ne aliis nuntiaturus sis. 

688. Si latro facem utraquemanu tenens regiam incursaverit, 

timeo ut regina se celare possit. 

689. Barbare tribunus sum ; et ego et ille Eomani sumus ; ne 

timeto ut vincamus. 

690. Fuimus victores ; fuit nostra gloria ; quo tandem abivit ? 

691. In pugna futura estote primi, in medio autem sunto socii. 

692. Fidos laudate, vulneratos nutrite, infidos terrete, milites in 

hostem ducite. 

693. Sentio quidem non, tribuno copias adducente, timendum 

esse, tamen timeo. 

694. Equidem quae suscepi diu abhinc perfeci; quae autem tu, 

imperfecta relinquis. 

695. Mene vis haec ardua suscipere ? Immo etiam his magis 

ardua. 

696. Optimus ille pater filiis fiKabusque imperavit ut sibi con- 

fiderent neu quid timerent. 

697. Ubinam coUocatae sunt copiae ? Philippisne an Epheso ? 

698. Servi, nisi sentitis vos injuste punitum iri, haec domino 

narratum ite. 

699. Tene incepti tui paenituit ? timeo, mi amice, ne infirmo sis 

animo. 

700. Curtius dixit, se timere ut barbaris resisti posset, quamdiu 

citra essent. 



72 THE MASTERY SERIES. 



ENGLISH COUPLETS 

Divided into 5, 6, or 7 Sections each, and yielding respectively SO, 60, 
and 120 variations, evolved hy taMng either the upper or the lower word 
out of each Section successively. These are to be translated into Latin 
and the exercise is to he carried on orally, (not in writing,) until the 
utmost fluency and readiness are gained in giving the Latin equivalent 
for each of the altered English sentences in rapid succession. 



1 

He is fit jto have such la business 
He is worthylto have so great |a project 



given up to him Ito perform 
entrusted to him to undertake 



2 

It-was-needful for thee to depart from Eome and to return home. 
It-behoved-thee to go out of Corinth and to come to the country. 

3 

I could prefer you did anything you will rather than betray a comrade. 
I could wish you tried anything you please rather than deliver-up the city 

4 
He is afraid that thou wilt not relate that to the angry queen. 
I fear that thou wilt announce this to the giieving mistress. 

5 

When a large crowd broke into the palace, the queen fled. 

When a seditious mob hastened into the hall, the maidservant went off. 

6 

Who will deny that he is willing to be slain unless he conquers ? 
Who affirms that he prefers to perish unless he triumphs ? 

7 
He said, however, that his comrade was-desiring that. 
He felt, therefore, that your guest had-hidden this. 



LATIN MANTJAL. 



73 



LATIN COUPLETS 

Constructed so that the words in each Section may be similarly inter- 
changed with each other. The sentences are first to he learned by heart 
very thoroughly, and then altered so as to correspond with the variations 
that may be made in the English couplets, but the sequence of the Latin 
words in their respective Sections must never he broken. 



Idoneus est 
Di<2:nus est 



1 

ciii tale I negotium i cedatur i perticiendiim. 
cui tantum I inceptum I oredatur I suscipieudum. 



Opus-erat Roma abires domumque redires 
Oportuit Corintho exii-es et rus advenii-es. 



Mallem quidvis potius faceres quam socium proderes. 
Vellein quidlibet potius couarciis quam lU'bem traderes. 



Metuit ut ilia iratae reginae nan-es. 
Timeo ne haec dolenti dominae nunties. 



Turba magna in regiam irrumpente, regina confugit. 
Caterva seditiosa in aulam properante, ancilla abivit. 

6 

Quis negabit se velle necari nisi vincat H 
Quis affirmat se malle perire nisi triumphet ? 



Dixit auteni comitem ejus illud cupere. 
Sensit igitur hospitem vestrum hoc abdidisse. 



74 THE MASTERY SERIES. 

8 

It is sweet and becoming to die for one's country. 

It is honourable and-also worthy to be bold for the commonwealth. 

9 
Take care thou committest to him this letter written to me. 
Mind thou sendest-back to yonder man those epistles sent to thee. 

10 
I could wish you would say that I have-taught the boys this. 
I could wish you would not show that we are-asking the girls that. 

11 
Who is so hard as not to weep-for his son ? 
He has been so very harsh that he does not lament my friend. 

12 

The shepherd is so foolish that he has left the sheep. 

The guard has been so very mad that he has deserted the flocks. 

13 

Astyanax was so cruel that no one praised him. 

The old man was so very austere that neither loved him. 

14 

If my father and mother had been dead, I should not have been here. 
Unless thy brother and sister had been well, we should have grieved. 

15 
Whoever reports this to thee, reports what is false. 
Every one who relates that to you, relates what is true. 

16 

We had sent legates to Caesar to ask for peace. 
Ye sent back messengers into the city to seek help. 

17 
What reason is there, why renown does not make you happy. 
There is no reason why praise does not render them proud. 



LATIN MAiraAL. 75 

8 

Diilce et decorum est pro patria mori. 

Honestum atque dignum est pro republica audere. 

9 

Cura ut has literas ad me scriptas ei mandes. 
Fac illas epistolas ad te missas illi remittas. 

10 

Velim dicas me pueros haec docuisse. 
Nolim monstres nos puellas ilia rogare. 

11 
Quis est tarn durus ut non filium suum fleat ? 
Ille fuit adeo immitis ut non amicum meum lugeat. 

12 

Pastor tam stultus est ut oves reliquerit. 
Custos adeo insanus fuit ut pecora deseruerit. 

13 
Astyanax tam crudelis erat ut nemo eum laudaret. 
Senex adeo austerus fuit ut neuter eum amaret. 

14 

Si pater mihi et mater mortui fuissent, non adfuissem. 
Nisi frater tibi et soror valuissent, doluissemus. 

15 
Quicunque tibi haec nuntiat, falsa nuntiat. 
Quisquis vobis ilia narrat, vera narrat. 

16 

Legates ad Caesarem miseramus ut pacem rogarent. 
Nuntios in urbem remisistis qui auxilium peterent. 

17 
Quid est cur fama vos non beatos efficiat ? 
Nihil est cur laus eos non superbos praestet. 



76 THE MASTERY SERIES. * 

18 

There are not yet ten months since the consul departed. 
There are scarcely yet four days since the dictator died. 

19 

My comrades are so unjust that no one trusts them. 

Thy brothers have been so unfair that no one believes them. 

20 

Who is there here to deny that pleasure is a good thing ? 

There is no one there to affirm that liberty has been a bad thing. 

21 

He was feigning that he was austere, that no man might love him. 
She affirmed that he was angry, that no woman might commend him. 

22 
Before the enemy came up, our men took up their arms. 
After the forces returned, your men laid down their swords. 

23 

Where I lately hid myself, thou mayest hide thyself. 

Where I yesterday stationed the boy, I choose to station the attendant. 

'24 

If the others came with me, yonder guest would stay here. 

If the neighbours ran up with you, that stranger would remain there. 

25 
If thou be a'fraid, wouldst thou betake thyseK into this hall ? 
Unless thou be brave, wouldst thou not hurry to that vestibule ? 

26 

He is too bold to yield to the attacking barbarian. 

He will be too high-spirited to spare the threatening foe. 

27 
He says that he will be punished, unless he tends the boy. 
He affirms that that man will be beaten, unless he cherishes the sick. 



LATIN MANUAL. 77 

18 
Nondum decern menses sunt quum consul discessit. 
Vixdum quattuor dies sunt quum dictator mortuus est. 

19 

Comites mei tarn injusti sunt ut nemo iis confidat. 
Fratres tui tarn iniqui f uerunt ut nemo iis credat. 

20 
Quis hie est qui neget voluptatem bonum esse ? 
Nemo illic est qui afSrmet libertatem malum esse. 

21 

Se austerum esse simulabat, ne quis eum amaret. 
Eum iratum esse affirmavit, ne qua eum commendaret. 

22 

Antequam hostes accesserunt, nostri arma sumpserunt. 
Postquam copiae redierunt, vestri gladios deposuerunt. 

23 

Ubi me nuper celavi, tibi licet to celare. 

Ubi puerum hei-i collocavi, mihi libet ministrum collocare. 

24 
Si alteri mecum advenirent, hospes ille hie maneret. 
Si vicini vobiscum accurrerent, advena iste illic restaret. 

25 

Si timeas, num in hoc atrium te recipias ? 

Nisi fortis sis, nonne ad illud vestibulum festines ? 

26 

Audacior est quam ut barbaro oppugnanti cedat. 
Ferocior erit quam qui hosti minanti parcat. 

27 
Dicit, se, nisi puerum curet, punitum iri, 
Affirmat, ilium, nisi aegrotum foveat, verberatum irL 



78 THE MASTERY SERIES. 

28 
Wlien the priests came from Eome to lament tlie injuries, I went off. 
When the Sabines hastened into the City to report the dangers, I fled. 

29 

He enquires what is being announced to that man while wounded. 
He will ask why this has been related to himself while sick. 

30 

He was enquiring what things were being refused to the captives. 
He had asked why these things had been hidden from the dying men. 

31 

Perhaps thou complainest that I am not promising this. 
Certainly thou wilt complain that I have not related that. 

32 

He had complained that the commons had given up the citadel. 
Thou wouldst have grieved that a chief was going to betray a town. 

33 

It is not known when he will command us to return. 
We do not know whether he will allow you to depart. 

34 
Thou must go to Eome to-morrow to ask for help. 
Thou wilt have to cross to Corinth soon to seek reinforcements. 

35 
It is uncertain why our father commanded that. 
Declare when your mother said this. 



It is a fact that the horse yesterday crossed thro' the river. 
We know that the stag lately swam across the Ehone. 

37 
Through the whole year, senators consulted about the republic. 
Through one day, patricians were conversing about the fatherland. 



LATIN MAiniAL. 79 

28 
Qnum flamines a Roma venerunt injurias questum, abivi. 
Quum Sabini in urbem f estinaverunt pericula relatum, effugi, 

29 

Quaerit quid illi vulnerato nuntietur. 
Eogabit cur hoc sibi aegroto narratum sit. 

30 

Quaerebat quae captivis negarentur, 

Eogaverat cur haec morientibus dissimulata essent. 



31 

Forte quereris quod non hoc promittam. 
Certe quereris quod non illud narraverim. 

32 

Questus erat quod plebs arcem tradidisset. 
Doluisses quod dux oppidum proditurus esset. 



33 

Ignoratur quando nos redire jussurus sit. 
Ignoramus num vos excedere passurus sit. 

34 

Necesse est Eomam eras eas auxilium petiturus. 

Opus erit Corinthum mox transeas subsidia quaesiturus. 

35 

Incertum est cur pater noster ilia imperaverit. 
Narra quando mater vestra haec dixerit. 

36 

Constat equum per amnem heri transisse. 
Scimus cernun trans Ehodanum nuper natavisse. 

37 
Totum annum Senatores consuluerunt de republica. 
Unum diem patres colloquebantur de patria. 



80 THE MASTERY SERIES. 

38 
Hannibal was recalled from Italy to defend his country. 
Fabius returned into Latium to succour the city. 

39 

If we shall be suffered to live secure, we will come. 
If thou shalt please to be tranquil, we will remain. 

40 
So many are wont to praise me for not thinking this. 
How many desire to blame me for not having read that. 

41 
I was saying that the barbarians would at length beat our men. 
He was thinking that the foe would soon have routed you. 

42 
The master asks thee how large an army is at Eome. 
The lord teaches me what sort of a cavalry there was at Athens. 

43 
He, desirous of succouring friends, gives attention to work. 
He, fond of helping neighbours, bestows time on arms. 

44 
At what didst thou buy the farmer's hound yesterday ? For little. 
At what didst thou seU the lady's horse lately ? For much. 

45 
It is your business, soldiers, to-take-arms, the leader's to command. 
It is our business, horsemen, to-form-line, the tribune's to plan. 

46 
It is now time to say what thing one ought to wish. 

It is now the hour to teach what things it is becoming to do. 

47 
What is pleasanter to be known and heard than philosophy ? 
Naught is welcomer to be taught or practised than wisdom. 



LATIN MANUAL. 8i 

38 
Hannibal patriam defensum ab Italia revocatus est. 
Fabius urbi succursum in Latium rediit. 

39 
Si licebit nobis securis vivere, veniemus. 
Si placebit tibi tranquillo esse, manebimus. 

40 
Tot me laudare solent quod non hoc sentiam. 
Quot me culpare cupiunt quod non illud legerim. 

41 
Aiebam fore ut barbari nostros tandem vincerent. 

Putabat futurum f uisse ut hostes vos mox pulsarent. 

42 

Magister te rogat quantus sit Romae exercitus. 
Dominus me docet qualis fuerit Athenis equitatus. 

43 
Amicis succurrendi cupidus labori operam dat. 
Vicinis opitulandi studiosus armis tempus impendit. 

44 

Quanti catulum agricolae heri emisti ? Parvo. 

Quanti equum matronae nuper vendidisti ? Magni. 

45 

Vestrum, milites, est arma-sumere, ducis praeesse. 
Nostrum, O equites, est aciem-instruere tribuni consulere. 

46 
Jam tempus est dicendi quid oporteat optare. 
Jam hora est docendi quae deceat facere. 

47 
Quid est jucundius cognitu atque auditu quam philosophia ? 
Nihil est gratius doctu vel actu quan sapientia. 



a 



82 THE MASTERY SEEIES. 

48 
There you must conquer or die, soldiers. 
Here we must repulse or perish, comrades. 

49 
If thou wert to give this to me at my request, I would praise thee. 
If thou wert to yield that to him at his prayer, I would love thee. 

50 
Some dare not through fear of envy to speak what they feel. 

Some are not wont througih dread of hatred to shew what they hope. 

51 

He is too good to betray his comrade through fear. 
He is too faithful to surrender his country through dread. 

52 
He answers he wishes to die unless he shall rejoice. 
He says he prefers to perish unless he shall be happy. 

53 

It is not doubtful that the slave must obey the master. 

It is not unfair, is it, that the bailiff should submit to the farmer ? 

54 
I will oblige him to quaff this water. 
I exhort him not to drink that drink. 

55 

While the rowers were away, ye ought to have conciliated the troops. 
When the auxiliaries came up, ye could have succoured the prince. 

56 
Of the soldiers, ye have sent, part are timid, part have taken arms. 
Of our men, whom he had collected, some have fled, some are bold. 

57 
He is too inexperienced to have that sword given him. 
He is too unskilled to have that javelin entrusted to him. 



LATIX MAJN^UAL. 83 

48 
Hie vobis vincendum est aut moriendum est, milites. 
Illic nobis pulsandum est aut pereundum est, sooii. 

49 
Sihoc mihi roganti des, te laudem. 
Si iliud isti precanti cedas, te araem. 

50 

Sunt qui, quod sentiant, invidiae metu non audeant dicere. 
Sunt qui, quod sperent, odii tiniore non soleant nporiro,. 

51 
Melior est quam ut socium timore prodat. 
Fidior est quam ut patriam formidine tradat. 

52 

Kespondet velle se mori nisi gavisurus sit. 
Dicit raalle se perire nisi folix futurus sit. 

53 
Haud dubium est domino a servo parendum esse. 
Num iniquum est colono a villico cedenduin esse? ' 

54 

Eum cogam ut banc aquam hauriat. 
Eum hortor ne illara potioneni bibat. 

55 
Dum aberant remiges, milites conciliare debuistis. 
Quum adfuerunt auxilia, principi suecurrere potuistis. 

56 
Militum, qitos misistis, partim timidi sunt, partim arma cepenmt. 
Nostrorum, quos colleger:! t. alii fugerunt, abi audaces sunt. 

57 
Imperitior est quam cui gladius iste detur. 
luscientior est quam cui jaculum illud mandetur. 



84 THE MASTERY SERIES. 

58 

He is here with a levy, for the sake of liberating the citizens. 
He has come with a reserve, desirous of saving the republic. 

59 
He rode through the other river to go to attack the foe. 
He was hastening to that bank to go to surround the barbarians. 

60 
The wise man answers that he eats in order to live. 
The philosopher has affirmed that he learns in order to teach. 

61 

He was commanding him to collect an army as soon as he could. 
He exhorted Mm to procure soldiers whenever he might. 

62 
The tribune being dead, it remains that the forces halt. 
The chief being captured, it follows that the foemen fly, 

63 

Being conquered is not easier to a soldier than conquering, is it ? 
Being routed is not pleasanter to a chief than routing, is it ? 

64 
At once he shows that he had never promised this. 
Even now he declares that I had long ago denied that. 

65 

At the questioning of the foreigner I pretended that I was a soldier. 
At the approach of the stranger I boasted that he was a chief. 

66 
There is a rumour that the culprit has fled out of the fort. 
Let it be granted that the robber has slipped down from the prison, 

67 

It was added that the friend had got out safe. 

It happened that the citizen had returned unwounded. 



LATIN MANUAL. 85 

58 
Civium liberandorum causa cum delectu adest. 
Eeipublicae conservandae eupidus cum subsidio adrenit. 

59 
Per amnem alterum equitavit ut hostes oppugrnatum iret. 
Ad ripam illam properabat ut barbaros circumventum iret . 

60 
Sapiens respondet se edere ut vivat. 
Philosophus affirmavit se discere ut docoat. 

61 
Imperabat,rexercitum coUigeret quamprimum posset. 
Hortatus est, milites compararet quandocunque liceret. 

62 

Tribune necato, superest ut copiae consistant. 
Principe capto, sequitur ut hostes fugiant. 

63 
Num vinci militi facilius est quam vincere ? 
Num pulsari duci jucundius est quam pulsare ? 

64. 

Extemplo demonstrat se nunquam hoc pollicitum esso. 
Etiamnunc declarat me diu abhinc illud negavisse. 

65 
Peregrino interrogante, simulavi me militem esse. 
Advena appropinquante, gloriatus sum eum principem esse. 

66 
Eumor est, reum e castello conf ugisse. 
Esto, latronem de carcere delapsum esse. 

67 
Accedebat ut amicus incolumis excessisset. 
Accidebat ut civis sine vulnere rediisset. 



86 THE MASTERY SERIES. 

68 
It is expedient that thou shouldst return home as soon as thou art able. 
It remains that thou shouldst depart to Eome, if thou art willing'. 

69 
The last thing is, that thou bury the dead when the .battle is fought. 
The law is, that thou bear away the slain when the conflict is done. 

70 
The praetor doubts whether those things have happened in the camp. 
The consul rather thinks these things are happening in the town. 

71 
Manlius, having captured the city, betook himself into winter quarl ers. 
Curtius, having occupied the camp, departed out of the province. 

72 
The chief praises Lucius, because he is going. 
The one man has commended the other man, because he remained. 

73 
I am not the man to oppress thy brother cruelly. 
I am not the man, am I, to punish your father harshly ? 

74 
If we are ashamed of the iindertaking, how does it concern them? 
If we repent of the deed, not at all does it affect you. 

75 
Of course, I-passed-no-day that I did not write to thee. 
Believe me, I-omitted-nothing that I did not teU the father. 

76 

He was leaving dogs in the sheepfold to save the sheep. 
He stationed watchmen in the fields to defend the cattle. 

77 
I deny that he, even when armed with a javelin, can conquer me. 
I say not that they, having taken up the sword, could have subdued us. 



LATIN MAIiUAL. 87 

()8 
Expedit ut, quum primum possis, domum redeas. 
Relinquitur ut, si veils, Eomam abeas. 

69 
Extremum est, ut mortuos praelio depugnato sepelias. 
Lex est, ut necatos certamine acto auferas, 

70 
Praetor dubitat, an ea in castris acciderint. 
Consul nescit an haec in oppido fiant. 

71 

Manlius, quum urbem cepisset, in hiberna se recepit. 
Curtius, quum castra occupavisset, e provincia discessit. 

72 
Princeps Lucium laudat, quod eat. 
Alter alterum commendavit, quod manserit. 

73 

Non is sum qui tuum fratrem crudeliter opprimam. 
Num is sum qui vestrum patrem inhumane puniam ? 

74 
Si nos pudet incepti, quid illorum interest ? 
Si nos paenitet facti, nihil vestra ref ert. 

75 

I'rofecto nullum-intermisi-diem quin ad te scriberem. 

Crede mihi nihil-praetermisi quin ad patrem nuntiarem. 

76 

Canes in saeptis relinquebat, ut oves servarent. 
Justodes in agrisf collocavit, qui pecudes defenderent. 

77 
Nego eum, et jaculo armatum, me vincere posse. 
Non affirmo illos, gladio sumpto, nos subigere potuisse. 



88 THE MASTEEY SERIES. 

Some of the Variations of the following Couplets, being 

78 
I promise to send thee help at once. 
We hope to convey over to yon the chariots very quickly. 

79 
He answered that he would return home if he could. 
He stated they would go away to the country if they ought. 

80 
Dost thou think that he will be faithful when I come ? 
Ye say that ye will be ready when I return. 

81 
He says that the friend's having come is welcome to him. 
He answers that thy having written is pleasant to that man. 

82 
Wilt thou have lamented that I am never zealous for thee ? 
Art thou going to complain that we have not been fond of you ? 

83 
For he persuaded the other to seek something for me from the consul. 
Yet he commanded me to pray for nothing for thee from the judge. 

84 
We are bringing letters to Atticus to entreat for pardon. 
They are sending tablets to thee to ask for money. 

85 
Who will prevent me from doing what I like ? 
Who will forbid thee from obtaining what thou preferrest ? 

86 
Tho' he despise me, I am not able to help loving him. 
Tho' he has injured us, we shall not be able to help aiding him. 

87 
Once, when in misery, we longed for the absent friend. 
Once, when in grief, you hoped for the repulsed guest. 

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LATIN M^iXUAL 89 

ungrammatical.will require to be rectified by the learner. 

78 
Promitto me tibi subsidium extemplo missurum. 
Speramus nos vobis ciutus citissime transvectoras. 

79 

Eespondit se, si posset, domum rediturum esse. 
Affirinavit illos, si oijorteret, rus abituros esse. 

80 
Putasne ilium cum adsim fidum f uturura esse ? 
Dicitis vos cum redeam paratos futures esse. 

81 
Dicit sibi gratum esse quod amicus accesserit. 
K-espondet illi jucundum esse quod tu scripseris. 

82 
Num dolueris quod nunquam tui studiosus sim ? 
Questurusne es quod non vestri amantes fuerimus? 

83 
Alteii euim persuasit ut aliquid mihi a consule peteret. 
Mihi tamen imperavit ne quid tibi a judiee precarer. 

8-i 
Litteras ad Atticum ferimus, ut veniam oremus. 
Tabulas ad te mittunt, ut pecuniam rogent. 

85 

Quis me impediet quominus quae velim faciam? 
Quis te prohibebit quominus quae malis consequaris ? 

86 
Ut me temnat, non fieri potest quin diligam. 
Quamvis nobis nocuerit, non fieri poterit quin adjuvemus. 

87 
Fuit quum amicum absentem miseri desideraremus. 
Fuit quum hospitem depnlsum dolentes speraretis. 



90 THE MASTEEY SERIES. 

COUPLETS AND TEIPLETS ILLUSTEATING THE FIVE 
DECLENSIONS. 

The two sentences of each couplet are to be interlaced with each 
other. Take one of the words out of each section successively, and 
thus make variations to be translated into Latin, but obtain perfect 
fluency in reciting each couplet before any of its words are inter- 
changed. After each variation has been translated, the original 
couplet should be repeated aloud. When the variations of the 
second couplet have been mastered, remove one word at a time from 
one couplet to the other to make fresh variations ; so also with the 
third and fourth couplets. The Latin order of the words must never 
be altered. 



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donavit. 





II. 

Hasten, oh my son, out of the garden of the master. 
Eide away, oh my friend, from the field of the doctor. 

Festina, mi fili, ex horto magistri. 
Abequita, mi amice, ab agro medici. 

III. 
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The mistress has given a table to the matron. 

Eegina ancillae zonam promittit. 
Domina matronae mensam dedit. 

IV. 

Hide thyself, oh my daughter, in the hut of the slave. 
Eemain, oh my mistress, in the court of Portia. 

Te cela, mea filia. in casa servae. 

Mane, mea domina, in aula Portiae. 



LATIN MANUAL. 



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DIYEESIFYING TABLE 

Showing 240 of the commonest English Words grouped so as to 
facilitate the making of Yariatioi^s, to he used as Exercises in 
viva voce composition in any language, ivhether ancient or modern. 

fa. J Unless, if, wlietlier, althougli, yet, but, besides, except, 
during, whilst, because, for, as, whereas, since, after, before, 
instead of, that, lest, until, upon, whenever, therefore, in, from, 
without, before, else, and, or. 

fh.J I, thou, he, she, it, we, you, they ; my, thy, his, her, its, 
our, your, their. 

fcj Am, art, are ; be ; do, does, did ; have, has, had ; is, was, 
wast, were, wert ; will, would, shall, should ; can, could ; may, 
might ; must ; ought, let. 

fd.J Being, been ; buying, bought ; brings, brought ; calls, 
called; caused; comest, came; doing, done; finds, found; gave, 
given ; going, gone ; having ; knowing, known ; meets, met ; 
makest, made ; procured; put; saw, seen ; sell, sold; sends, sent ; 
showed ; stopped ; taken, took ; telling, told ; wanted ; went. 

fe.J Me, thee, him, her, it, self, us-, you, them, selves ; my, 
his, her, its, our, your, their; mine, thine, hers, ours, yours, 
theirs ; a, an, the. 

ff.J Which, who, whom ; how much, how many ; why ; 
when ; whither, whence, where ; whose, what, how. 

fg.J A, an, the; this, more, such, that, any, every, another, 
several, those, most, these, other, either, neither, some, many, 
few, rest ; one, first, two, second, three, four, five, six, seven, 
eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, twenty, hundred. 

fh.J On, into, of, instead of, between, out of, about, beyond, 
over, through, near, among, below, under, towards, in, down, 
to, at, behind, beside, with, from, without, concerning, before, 
after. 

fi.J Together, often; to-day, yesterday, to-morrow; here, 
there ; better, best ; yes, no, not ; back, very, next, first, away, 
soon, afterwards, always, well, ago, than, hence, thence ; hither, 
thither. 

DiRECTiO]srs. — Take any sentence, being an English version of 
a foreign one already committed to memory very perfectly, 
and remove the words, (one at a time), replacing them with any 
of those in the group to which they severally belong, and then 
translate them in rapid succession. 

Substitute pronouns for nouns at pleasure, and change affirma- 
tive into interrogative, imperative, or negative sentences. 

The auxiliary verbs ought frequently to be massed thus : — 
''might have heen,'' &c., and the Table of the Verbs should 
constantly be used so that the Learner may help himself to the 
Terminations of the altered Tenses. 

EXAMPLE. 

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If we had not met one of them in the street, I should not have 

d f b c d i 

known why they had returned thence. 



APPENDIX A. 



EPITOME OF THE ACCIDENCE. 



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(In the order in tvUch they stand in the Table.) 
Hard, harder, hardest; bold-er-est; fair-er-est; swilVer-est ; 
like-er-est ; grand-er-est ; beneficent-more-most ; benevolent-more- 
most ; rich-er-est; rich-er-est ; doubtful; wortHly-more-most ; 
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PRONOUNS. 

I- thou; self; he; it; she; this (3); that (3); itself; same (3); 

who, 4hich, any; who, anyone; which, any; what ? anything; who, 

which, any ? who ? anyone, any ; we ; ye ; selves ; those (3) ; these (3) ; 

those, same (3); who, which, any; what, which, any ; who, whxch, 

any; any. 

NOUNS SINGULAE. 

Slave 1 son 2, God 3, boy, 4, tender 4, black 5, master 5, 
man C, the eommon people 7, roof 8, the other 9, which ot two 10, 
the other 11, which of two 11. another 12, one 13, 14, chanot o, 
knee 16, hall 17, the other 18, which of two 18, one 18, thmg 19, 
ony=. 20, rough 21, 23, fierce 21, 22, milk 23, Astyanax 24, biped 25, 26, 
::Leing 25? 2G, hear-t 27, ashes 28, Venns 29, sort 30 old 29, 0, 
screech-owl 31, spouse 32, bachelor 33, simple 34, 35, rndolent o6 3,, 
• rower 38, journey 39, man 40. priest 41, name 42, hver 43 ch.ef 44, 
headlong 45, 40, old man 47, pig 48, winter 49, feveroO, sea o 
cloud 52, rich 53, 54, head 65, bozer 56, animal 57, equal ob, noney oJ, 
kidney 00, blood 01, flesh 62, elephant 63, Xenophon 6-1. loving 6o, 60, 
advising 65, 06, reason 67, oak 68, hare 69, body 70, equal ,1 ,.. 
brass 73, shower 74, grain 75, bone 76, inert 77, 78, snow ,9, ox 80. 

NOUNS PLUKAL. 
Slaves 1. sons 1, rivers 1, boys 1, tender 1. black 1, masters 1, 
n>en 1, monies 1, 2, roofs 3, halls 3, temples 3. two 4, both 4, gods o, 
tender 6, black 6, halls 6, daughters 7. two 7, jaws 8, companions 8 
cattle 8, cities 8, reasons 8, old men 8, strength 8 simple 9, .ovmg . 
leaves 9, arts 9, bipeds 9, peoples 0. snows 9, hearts 10, sort» 0, 
heads 10, names 10. loving U, injaring 11, leading U, amma,s 1 , 
heavy 11, spurs U, oxen 12, chariots 13, steps 13, horns 14, knee. M, 
Ihing-s 15, days 15. 



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Fall; slay; sing; run; learn; go; deceive; bring; become; rejoice; 
prefer; bite; be unwilling; bang; spare; bring forth; drive; fasten; 
demand; be able; prick; pledge one's self ; lift up ; stretch : tench; 
shear; pound. 



IREEGULAR VERBS. 

Give 1, stand 2, rattle 3, cut 4, help 5, beware 6, mix 7, 
dine 8, weep 9, burn 10, soothe 11, remain 12, stick 13, flash 14, 
twist 15, command 16, increase 17, shine 18, teach 19, cherish 20, 
venture 21, be accustomed 22, spread 23, dig 24, pour 25, cleave 26, 
hide 27, make 28, act 29, transact 30, compel 31, break 32, read 33, 
pluck 34, beget 35, take 36, besmear 37, sow 38, buy 39, diink 40, 
conquer 41, leave 42, permit 43, desire 44, seek 45, foi-m 46, break 47, 
marry 48, comb 49, despise 50, strew 51, discern 52, rub 53, immerse 
54, shut 55, send 56, gather 57, seek 58, yield 59, shake 60, press 61, 
wear 62, mow 63, stand 64, put 05, turn 66, elicit 67, lie down 68, 
snatch 69, make noise 70, nourish 71,' sharpen 72, know 73, loosen 74, 
tell 75, rule 76, cook 77, fix 78, dye 79, convey 80, live 81, flow 82, 
behold 83, bury 84, come 85, ascertain 86, find 87, prop 88, drink 89, 
feel 90, open 91, sanction 92. 



NOTICES 



The Mastery of Languages. — "By such a method as Mr. 
Prendergast's, boys might be taught to use inflections, and to do this 
rapidly. In acquiring this skill they would, of necessity, come to 
feel the power of the inflections ; the ending of the word would 
produce its effect on the learner's mind without the intervention of 
parsing, and thus one of the main diflBculties in reading simple 
Greek or Latin would disappear, * * * Mr. Prendergast's name 
will live in the history of didactics. * * * The flrst stage of the 
learner's course, a stage limited perhaps to a month or six weeks, 
will be most advantageously conducted on the Mastery System. 
And for pupils beyond the first stage, on whatever plan they have 
been taught, the most certain way of acquiring the foreign idioms 
will be found to be by exercises carried out on Mr, Prendergast's' 
method, according to which the idioms will be mastered in properly 
constructed sentences and variations. Every one interested in this 
subject should study the 'Mastery of Languages.' " — Quarterly Journal 
of Education. April, 1872. 

Mastery Series — Hebrew. — "The method is as valuable as it is 
novel. It has, indeed, greatly interested me, as it seems to rest on 
trustworthy and logical principles. I shall recommend the book to 
all candidates for holy orders who may refer to me on this subject." — 
Extract from a letter from the Right Rev. the Bishop of Gloucester and 
Bristol, January 1, 1872. 

Mastery Series — Hebrew. — "Mr. Prendergast's Hebrew MawitaZ 
is another volume of his Mastery Series, previous volumes of which 
have met with so much and such deserved success. He contends that 
it is unscientific and irrational to commence with the study of tech- 
nical grammar. There is a fixed idea universally prevailing that 
grammar can only be acquired by means of rules instructing begin- 
ners how to compose sentences in accordance with what are called 
the principles of the language ; but Mr, Prendergast maintains 
there never was a greater delusion so generally received as a truth. 
Every correct sentence, he afifirms, uttered by illiterate persons in 
speaking their own language, disproves that dogma, and there is 
nothing to prevent beginners from mastering the principle of every 
construction of any language through the medium of sentences 
selected for that purpose. 



The Mantial in question is designed, as the preface informs us, 
to enable beginners to learn to read the Hebrew Scriptures without 
the aid of a teacher, and to infuse vitality into the lifeless system 
resorted to by those who study languages without ever acquiring 
them, 'Mastery is the highest degree of fluency and readiness in 
reproducing foreign sentences with the words in their idiomatic 
order of arrangement.' Sentences are given and variations arranged 
therefrom. In the present Manual there are 34 Texts and 485 
variations evolved from them ; though this nu.mber represents but 
a fraction of the variations which the Texts are capable of yielding. 

Particular attention is paid to the following branches into 
which the divisions of the book fall; mode of presenting Hebrew words 
in Eoman letters; pronunciation; reading and writing; emphasis; 
and peculiar sounds. We have exhausted our space, but we Irust 
that what we have here noticed and laid before our readers will have 
the effect of introducing Mr. Prendergast's valuable Hebrew Manual 
to the now greatly increasing number of men studying Hebrew for 
the Theology Schools. Beginners will here find an exact method of 
procedure, which will put it in their power to wield Hebrew forms of 
speech with the greatest facility, and what is still more important, 
without forgetting what they learn." — Oxford Undergraduates' Journal, 
Jan. 2Bth, 1872. 



The Mastery of Languages. — ^'The author of this curious and 
interesting book makes in the preface a sort of half apology for its 
want of originality. He tells us that as his method * only professes 
to be an exposition of phenomena which have come under everyone's 
observation, the want of novelty may not be considered altogether 
unpardonable.' * * * The one conspicuous feature of Mr. 
Prendergast's book seems to us its originality, both in execution 
and design. It is in the new application of old facts that originality 
lies, and, as a rule, the older the tacts, the greater the originality. 
It therefore appears to us that Mr. Prendergast deserves the 
highest credit for the rare novelty with which he has invested a 
thoroughly trite theme. 

To all who are studying or about to study a language we heartily 
recommend it as full of useful, hints. But perhaps a fair general 
notion of Mr. Prendergast's process may be gained from a brief 
enunciation of the leading principles, which he works out with the 
most vigorous and unflinching logic to their ultimate conclusions. 

We find the central idea of Mr. Prendergast's system to be, that 
it is worse than useless, worse than a mere waste of time, in learning 
a language, to touch any part without thoroiighly ' mastering ' it. 
This may at first sound rather stale, but then oiu- readers do not 
know the new and awful significance which in Mr. Prendergast's 
hands the word ' mastery ' gains. It is a very common but fatal 
mistake to fancy that fluency depends upon extent of vocabulary. * * * 
But given this central principle, all the author's conclusions 
follow inevitably. It is so essential to ' master ' a little — so 
useless and dangerous to leave one jot or tittle unmastered — that 
Mr. Prendergast's anxiety to avoid overloading the memory knows 
no bounds." — Madras Athenceum, June loth, 1865. 



TheIMastert System. — "In grammar -we still bpgin with abstract 
principles, which it is impossible for a child's mind to assimilate. 
When sentences are first taught and variations made, itpon the plan 
recommended by Mr. Prendergast, I have found that children do not 
pronounce with the usual British accent, and do learn to express 
themselves in idiomatic French and German. They get to know, as 
Dr. Moberly expresses it, the sentence-moulds of other languages. 
Besides, the power of observation is cultivated ; they learn to make 
i*ules themselves, and their grammatical faculty is developed. So 
far from the mastery system, rightly understood, being a superficial 
one, it is the most thorough I know. I hope we shall, eventually, 
teach grammar as we now teach arithmetic. I mean, give no rules, 
but induce the learner to find them out." — See preface to Summary of 
H.M. Commissioners' Report on Female Education, by D. Beale, Principal 
of Ladies' College, Cheltenham, 18G9. 



The Mastery Series. — Hebrew. — "This work is designed 
to aid beginners in Hebrew to read the Hebrew Scriptures 
without the help of a Teacher. It consists of thirty-four texts, 
and 485 variations evolved from them. The variations exhibit 
the constructions latent in each text, while the English versions 
afford all the requisite explanation of each phrase and the meaning 
of each word which has undergone alteration. The vocabulary, 
though limited, is exceedingly well done, the variations contain from 
fifteen to twenty English words each, and this length has been fixed 
upon to exhibit to beginners complete sentences of a composite 
character, as models for framing similar compositions for themselves. 
We cordially agree with the author in considering it a mistake to 
commence with very short sentences. It is an excellent work, well 
printed, and very carefully and lucidly arranged in its classification." 
— School Board Chronicle. 



Hand Book to the Mastery Series. — "We strongly recom- 
mend Mr. Prendergast's * Handbook,' as a lucid exposition of 
many very valuable didactic principles ; and also his adaptation of 
them to practice in the separate volumes dedicated to ' French ' and 
'German'; and we especially advise those who intend to give his 
system a trial to 'master' the 'Handbook' in the fii-st instance." 
— Pall Mall Gazette, January IS, 1872. 



Extract from letter from the celebrated linguist. Professor Cenek 
Sercl, University of Kharkov. — "The more I reflect upon the Mastery 
System, and the more I practice it, the more I see its value." * ^ * 

From the Rev. R. 8. Clough, late President of the Protestant 
Tlieological College, Seville. — "Your system of teaching the Spanish 
language is in my opinion superior to any other extant, and if the 
instructions given be duly followed, the inevitable consequence 
must be all that could be desired. Where other methods have been 
hopeless, your system has been crowned with success. I consider 
it a positive boon to teachers and students of the Spanish 
language." * * * 



" Mr. Prendergast has put f ortli a Method for the learning of 
languages which is calculated to revolutionise all the existing 
systems of teaching — yes, and he will revolutionise the teaching of 
all the public Schools in England." — Speech of Rev. Principal Blair, of 
Worcester, at a Public Meeting, April 19, ] 872. 

Mastert Series. — French. — " The models of Phrases in the 
French Manual, the idiomatic turns and expressions have been chosen 
with scrupulous care and an enlightened taste. * * * It is 
conversation, it is the chit-chat of the drawing-room that the 
learner practises and obtains. * * * As to the technical part, 
it gives place to the practical part, an eminently English characteristic. 
Grammar, according to our philologist (who speaks ex cathedra, 
supporting himself by a synthesis powerfully reasoned after the 
manner of Bacon) grammar, which we teach before the composition of 
sentences and the practice of words — grammar is made, composed, 
and constituted in all its parts in the pupil's head without any 
need of teaching it to him theoretically, &c., &c. The philosophical 
idea which explains and sustains this novel system will be found 
explained in the Handbook." — Translated from La Revue Britannique, 
May, 1868. 

"Mr. T. Prendergast offers us a most original solution in his 
Mastery Series. He propounds, discusses, and solves the problem 
of conversation and of the knowledge of a foreign language 
victoriously. * * In a word, it is the most practical system which 
philology has produced." — Boulogne L' Impartial. 

The Mastery of Languages. — " If we are, as some think, on the 
eve of a great reformation in the methods of studying language, 
Mr. Thomas Prendergast will certainly be recognised as its Luther. 
Educational conventions have debated the possibility of inventing 
a better system of instruction. College fellows have puzzled their 
venerable heads over the subject. It has found its way into the 
Eeviews. At last, the time has come and the man ! Mr. Prendergast 
in his book " On the Mastery of Languages," propounded the theory 
that the true way to learn an unknown language is, not to parrot 
its grammar and to thumb its lexicon, but to go to work, as a child 
does, to learn words and the idiomatic arrangement of words, and 
at once to put them to use." — Hartford Courant, Conn., TJ. S. 

Mastert Series. — "There is a delightful novelty about the 
theory which is quite charming, and which seems to have a solid 
basis to rest upon." — Congregationalist, Boston, TJ. S. 

Mastery Series. — " If Mr. Prendergast's works can be brought 
to the attention of teachers in this country they will effect a great 
change in the method of teaching foreign languages." — Nation, 
New Yorh, U. S. 



John Bellows, Stbam Press, Gloucester. 




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